Art Quotes · Page 332

Art is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves.

— Zadie Smith

“Art is like fruit, owing out of man—like the child out of its mother.”

— Hans Arp

the arts are life accelerated and concentrated.

— Edith Sitwell

I actually like the collaboration of working with different artists.

— Howard Shore

When I was young, I was interested in Renaissance art.

— Sigmar Polke

No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it.

— Leon Battista Alberti

I feel it's just some sort of game if it's just abstract.

— Jeffrey Smart

I feel most akin as an artist, in my life and my career, to Agatha Christie.

— M. Night Shyamalan

“...Paranoid art, unlike paranoid persons, also distrusts itself. And so, paranoid art is the ultimate opposite, the urgent opposite, of complacent art.”

— Jonathan Lethem

“Asked if she was a feminist, Louise said she wasn't sure, but she was a woman--her art couldn't help reflecting that.”

— Jan Greenberg

Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts.

— William Cowper

“it is widely believed that the purpose of art is to challenge, to question, to transgress, never to celebrate, to harmonise, to…

— Theodore Dalrymple

I am against limitations like perspective. Perspective is illusion, it's the opposite of presence, and art is presence.

— Pierre Soulages

I'm not an experimental artist. I have no talent for that. I need a certain kind of antecedent form to follow.

— Tony Kushner

There's really an art form to putting together a set list that flows evenly and that takes you on a ride and…

— Jay DeMarcus

Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.

— Andre Breton

The way that I'm working now is basically the way I've been working since I was a kid: Find the greatest artist…

— M. Ward

It would be most wholesome if for at least twenty years art historians were forbidden to refer to any derivations. If they…

— Rudolf Arnheim

Without the sense of fellowship with men of like mind, of preoccupation with the objective, the eternally unattainable in the field of…

— Albert Einstein

I see lies everywhere - switch on the television, it's lies. Everything is lies. In the art world or science community, we…

— Paola Pivi

That's what artists do, that's what poets do - we all do it. We start with something, and sometimes we destroy everything…

— Patti Smith

Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the…

— Tyra Banks

You know, a landscape painter's day is delightful. You get up early, at three o'clock in the morning, before sunrise; you go…

— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

I think that art likes to express society and the way the world is. Hopefully that's what it's trying to do. I…

— Forest Whitaker

My life is full of dramas.. Good and bad artists and real villains.. LOl

— Kand3n

If a musician wants to become a finer artist, he must first become a finer person.

— Shinichi Suzuki

A quality martial artist is always ready for any move, and trains oneself invincible.

— Bruce Lee

Since my teen years I was interested in martial arts.

— Tony Visconti

I create openings, and I move. I fight. It's an art form.

— Travis Browne

I believe in continuing to put love and kindness and compassion and art into the world.

— Nicole Kidman

Like a bathroom singer, I am a closet artist, but you need time to paint.

— Sushmita Sen

I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.

— Steve Lacy

Becoming a great preacher, like becoming a great artist, requires a life commitment.

— Calvin Miller

Book marketing should be a planned process, an art if you will.

— Heather Hart

Never give an artist like me carte blanche: he would think it's simply toilet paper.

— Maurizio Cattelan

When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

— Oscar Wilde

“We suffered for our art. You have to suffer for our art as well!”

— Terry Gilliam

There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities.

— Roger Zelazny

Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional.

— Oliver Sacks

“Disguise, I see thou art a wickedness,/ Wherein the...enemy does much.”

— William Shakespeare