Art Quotes · Page 333

I didn't know whether to join the army or go to art college.

— Timothy Spall

Angling is an art, and an art worth your learning.

— Izaak Walton

We overvalue the arts in relation to the sciences.

— Ian Mcewan

Being an artist, it's all a journey, and you learn where the subtle patterns lie.

— Graeme Base

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms.

— Thornton Wilder

“Self-destruction is an art; cursed are the exponents.”

— Anurag Shourie

“Sometimes an artist's first invention is herself.”

— Stephanie Vaughn

“Rome seems a comfort to those with the ambitious soul of an Artist or a Conqueror.”

— Pietros Maneos

My dad, when he was young, did Shakespeare in school, and my mom was a little bit of an artist, but everybody…

— Ato Essandoh

“I would venture a guess that an artist concentrating wholly unself-consciously, wholly thrown into his work, is incapable of producing pornography.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth.

— Richard Pryor

I had no idea what art was. There was one art class in high school, but it didn't make a big impression…

— Claes Oldenburg

Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may…

— Martial

Eloquence is heard; poetry is overheard ... All poetry is of the nature of the soliloquy.

— John Stuart Mill

Since when was making art about getting rich, and I know it's easy for me to say because having money's not everything…

— Kanye West

“...a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a…

— Clive Bell

I just love food and the art of it. There's such an art to being a good chef and the way you…

— Orianthi

Art lives and dies in the unique heart of he who carries it, just as all feelings only live and expand in…

— Marianne von Werefkin

That's something as an artist, when you're young, you don't necessarily think of. You're just doing music and whatever feels right to…

— B-Real

We are all naturally seekers of wonders. We travel far to see the majesty of old ruins, the venerable forms of the…

— Albert Pike

One thing, parents: you need to realize is you've got to stop letting artists raise your kids. You're the parent. Why don't…

— Tionne Watkins

Allowing artist-illustrators to control the design and content of statistical graphics is almost like allowing typographers to control the content, style, and…

— Anonymous

I felt that, in retrospect, there was a time in the late Seventies, after I had a string of hits and successes,…

— Boz Scaggs

Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution towards the improvement and enrichment of…

— Frederick Sanger

If the real world is orange juice, then art is like orange-juice concentrate.

— Martin Mull

To truly hate is an art one learns with time.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

As an artist you need to move on, you need to try new things.

— Graciela Iturbide

I never claimed to be a generic artist, period. I never wanted to be a generic artist.

— Steven Wilson

Arts are a luxury, proof that a civilization has risen above 'politics and war.'

— Nell Scovell

No one is so busy that he hasn't the time to dismantle a work of art.

— Halldór Laxness

The great thing about being an artist is, we want our work to be seen.

— Ricky Gervais

“Photography is basically an art of arranging the angles!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

I'm interested in storytelling. I love being an artist now and connecting through art.

— Nicole Kidman

I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political.

— Barbara Kingsolver

I'm the only artist who got paid by Puff, like really, really, paid.

— Mase

A culture is as rich and capable of surviving as it has imaginative artists.

— L. Ron Hubbard

Artists make worlds for people to walk through.

— Patricia Piccinini

I never understood the low art/high art distinction.

— Matt Tong

Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.

— Dennis Potter

The artists I look up to are the ones who push their own limits.

— Christina Aguilera