Art Quotes · Page 345

Art is never finished. It is only abandoned.

— Johan Renck

Dance like any other art form has no language.

— Shakti Mohan

Art is enchantment and artists have the right of spells.

— Jeanette Winterson

Art must not be intelligent; art is a jouisance, an enjoyment

— Andre Derain

Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.

— Federico Garcia Lorca

The combination of passion and art is what makes someone a linchpin.

— Seth Godin

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

— Eugene Ionesco

Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Well, within my business, visual art, the intake is 75 per cent female and yet you look at who has showed their…

— Grayson Perry

Money isn't that important to me. My needs are primarily artistic. Mainly I'm interested in my own peace of mind, in knowing…

— Pernell Roberts

[Beowolf] is considered an epic because of its long speeches, its digressions, its repetition, and its being required.

— Richard Armour

Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity.

— Robert Genn

Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology.

— Catherine Deneuve

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

— Aristotle

The end of the trial and the 'not guilty' verdicts on all counts, clearing Michael of all charges, mean that he can…

— LaToya Jackson

Most arts require long study and application, but the most useful art of all, that of pleasing, requires only the desire.

— Lord Chesterfield

There is a metaphysical honour in ending the world's absurdity. Conquest or play-acting, multiple loves, absurd revolt are tributes that man pays…

— Albert Camus

“There is no "can't" in martial arts. It is perfectly all right for students to state that they are "still working on…

— Lawrence Kane

When I entered college, it was to study liberal arts. At the University of Pennsylvania, I studied English literature, but I fell…

— Andrea Mitchell

I come from a mixed family, where my mother is art house cinema and my father is B-movie genre cinema. They're estranged,…

— Quentin Tarantino

No one can really explain in a rational way what makes a good photograph or a bad photograph... This is why the…

— David Wojnarowicz

I don't believe in misconceptions in art and films. There are always so many different ways to relate to or understand a…

— Claudia Llosa

There's no appreciation for the giants [of jazz]; there's never been a major film on Duke Ellington , never a major film…

— Randy Weston

“Yes, sah!" Service cried indignantly. "She hold me down, sah!" She know kung fu and chop suey and marital arts, sah!" "Marital…

— Anthony C. Winkler

I really pay attention to makeup artists and what they do with me.

— Edith Bowman

Art and politics have many things in common.

— Tania Bruguera

The biggest challenge, I think for any new artist, is patience.

— Brett Eldredge

Ingenious to their ruin, every age improves the art and instruments of rage.

— Edmund Waller

I think that street art is illegal and it has to stay illegal.

— Invader

The entire art system urgently needs a vacation.

— Isa Genzken

Love is art, not truth. It’s like painting scenery.

— Lorrie Moore

art is at least in part a way of collecting information about the universe.

— Rebecca West

Art is observing society around you, representing it through your eyes.

— Mark Foster

I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.

— Vincent Van Gogh

The Lord wants double edged artistry, praising God's name and setting things straight.

— Calvin Seerveld

Any art worth its name requires you to be fundamentally lost for a very long time.

— Junot Diaz

Life is short, the art is long, the problems pressing.

— Rene Dubos

A spiritual search in art is looking for meaning outside of yourself.

— Ross Bleckner

The greatest artists always come round to simplicity.

— John Lennon

“An artist can't let madness stop him from making art, he simply has to channel it.”

— Christopher Moore