Art Quotes · Page 338

The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire.

— Mark Twain

Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it.

— Marcel Duchamp

I embraced being a pop artist, but I like doing it on my own terms, at my own pace.

— Christina Aguilera

We now know that Art is not the truth... but rather a way of approaching the truth.

— Pablo Picasso

Why is the industry engineered to keep the artists in debt?

— Jadakiss

I was raised by this whole community of artists. It was pretty wild.

— Alexander Skarsgard

Two powerful women making art together is always really cool.

— Lauren Jauregui

“It's not supposed to be pretty. It's supposed to make you feel something.”

— Zøe Haslie

The ugliest spectacle is that of artists selling themselves. Art as a commodity is an ugly idea... The artist as businessman is…

— Ad Reinhardt

Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.

— David Bailey

My mother never learned English, but in Russia, the greatest thing was to give a child to the arts. And so they…

— Maria Karnilova

Don't make me out to be an artist. I am an engineer. I am after the facts, only the facts.

— Harold Eugene Edgerton

“To spend time observing, without drawing, thinking, without drawing, or feeling, without drawing, is the misfortune of nonartists.”

— Nick Meglin

If you fall asleep on horseback, the horse will stop by the rock. Art is a car. Kitsch is a horse.

— Odd Nerdrum

I've collected Andy Warhol art for years now I have two portraits of myself done by Steve Kaufman.

— David Caruso

As the art world changes, artists have more and more responsibility. You don't have a lot of luxury to be super secluded.

— Frances Stark

The establishment, both parties, think "Donald Trump may have built buildings and he may have written The Art of the Deal, but…

— Rush Limbaugh

Of course, growing up, I was a big fan of rap so that was something that I got into. I was a…

— Kirko Bangz

The art of loving creates the unity which has unlimited spiritual strength, and that is the greatest need in the world today,…

— Radhanath Swami

If you can create a reality that is entirely fictitious, it doesn't owe anything to this stuff out here, but you interact…

— Jerry Garcia

People believe that art and science are two distinct realms. It is far from the truth because, if you look at science…

— Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

I am not a representative of anything. When art historians or critics or the public put somebody in a drawer like this,…

— Georg Baselitz

“This new concept of the "finest, highest achievement of art" had no sooner entered my mind than it located the imperfect enjoyment…

— Marcel Proust

“Via the mediation of the Enlightenment, this movement had changed from a hobby among a tiny literate elite and their secretaries, an…

— Peter Sloterdijk

Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms.

— Daniel Bell

The quest for the next key art awards begins with tomorrow's hangover

— Nick Offerman

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

— Pablo Picasso

Westerns are closer to art than anything else in the motion picture business.

— John Wayne

Art to me was a state: it didn't need to be an accomplishment.

— Margaret Caroline Anderson

“Sex is an art; those who know better are the better artists.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“Books have long been instruments of the divinatory arts. ”

— Alberto Manguel

The disco sound, you must see, is not art or anything so serious.

— Giorgio Moroder

Do I suffer for my art? Well, I get a lot of flatulence when I'm nervous.

— Martin Clunes

Conventional wisdom can get us into so much trouble, especially as artists.

— Kevin Costner

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

— Anonymous

I got to grow up in an incredibly artistic family.

— Zoe Cassavetes

The music teacher came twice a week to bridge the awful gap between Dorothy and Chopin.

— George Ade

Where I am always thou art. Thy image lives within my heart.

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

I'm the No. 1 artist in the world right now ... I am the No. 1 human being in music.

— Kanye West

The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.

— Naguib Mahfouz