Art Quotes · Page 331

When the uncreative tell the creative what to do, it stops being art.

— Tony Bennett

Why settle for the art world when you can have the whole world?

— Martin Firrell

Reading Proust is like bathing in someone else's dirty water.

— Alexander Woollcott

Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

— Oliver Herford

“Not anyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere.”

— Jan Pinkava Ratatouille

I think it's like everything you do is just a reflection of who you are as an artist.

— Jonny Lang

Art is evidence of our most creative moment.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art is gushing hot bile on the fields and harvesting the looks of nasty dwarfs.

— Gunter Brus

An artist gives. Gives visually, gives through courses, or with free advice, through generosity of spirit and through a need to share.

— Veronica Roth

“...tango is art, not sex. Yes, it is art made with your body and someone else's. But not sex.”

— Kapka Kassabova

The artists in country music who stopped having hits are the ones who were led into something that wasn't them.

— Conway Twitty

Every artist who drew Batman after creator Bob Kane was a better artist than Kane [...].

— Mike W. Barr

Anybody auditions for X-Factor it's because they want to be famous, not because they are artists.

— Bruce Dickinson

“Assassination is an art, milord, and I am the city’s most accomplished artist - Durzo Blint”

— Brent Weeks

It is fatal for art if it is forced into official respectability and condemned to sterile mediocrity.

— Gustave Courbet

I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.

— Sam Taylor-Wood

What will be the judgment a century hence concerning the lorded works of our favorite composers today? Inasmuch as nearly everything is…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

In order to figure this artmaking stuff out, it's trial and error and experimentation, and takes some time and hard thinking. Putting…

— Jim Goldberg

Higher educating is defaulting on its obligations to offer young people a quality and broad-based education. This is true in part because…

— Henry Giroux

Get your scale pyrex, and you park em. In the kitchen cooking cookies, this is culinary art. Working for 28 straight, no…

— Killa Kyleon

There are some really amazing artists and people behind the scenes who are really effective in championing feminism in the music industry,…

— Charli XCX

In terms of my childhood, it was normal. You go through school, do well in school, and then I went to university.…

— Manny Jacinto

“I was a masterpiece; a painting in itself. He was changing me, molding me, and making me into something brand new. I…

— Evelyn Deshane

It really has become the singular motivation in my life - to surrender to the art and to the free expression of…

— Ed Kowalczyk

“Art is not about beauty, art is an expression.”

— Vikram Roy

Art scares me. I don't feel cool enough to be an artist.

— Simone Giertz

With each film of mine, I was learning about the art of movie-making.

— Priyadarshan

“Flight from boredom is the mother of all art.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Acting is an art and a science and there is more to me then that young blonde kid.

— Michael Welch

I think a lot of musicians and artists are really one that really only have one trick.

— Christian Scott

I'm Kiss the artist, and Jason the father. It's my job.

— Jadakiss

“I miss art. I miss art. Life would be worth living if I had art.”

— Julianna Baggott

A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.

— Anonymous

Art, to me, is a question. It should never be an answer.

— Marilyn Manson

I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.

— Vincent D'Onofrio

Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.

— D. H. Lawrence

Artists are prophets. They define the meaning of our lives and point the way.

— Tony Bouza

“Music is a piece of art that goes in the ears straight to the heart.”

— Ron Young Morris Plains

I am a New Yorker, one; I'm an artist, two; I'm a woman, three.

— Laurie Anderson

Like most artists, I live out of a suitcase.

— Cee Lo Green