Art Quotes · Page 355

The shelf life of an artist or musician isn't particularly long.

— Frances Bean Cobain

I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.

— P. J. Harvey

The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.

— Lester Bangs

“Love is often just an act of pretending that it exists.”

— Nitya Prakash

As an artist you have to have a certain amount of arrogance.

— Kim Weston

The artist is a person who is expert in the training of perception.

— Marshall McLuhan

As an artist, you don't stop making art because people are not buying it.

— Damien Hirst

If people knew how hard I worked at my art, they would not consider me a genius.

— Michelangelo

The first race of mankind used to dispute, as our ordinary people do now-a-days, in a kind of wild logic, uncultivated by…

— Joseph Addison

I subscribe to no religion. But I believe that in the creation of art, there can be moments of God.

— Andrea Riseborough

Before Lil Jon and The Eastside Boyz, nobody ever said, 'I'm a crunk artist. I make crunk music.'

— Lil Jon

“Solitary walks are great for getting new ideas. It's like you're in a video game and you pick up idea coins on…

— Joyce Rachelle

“To the extent that the short story is an art, Sturgeon is the American short-story writer.”

— Samuel R. Delany

All the arts are predominantly national, and therefore the Australian Film Commission should be funding us. The battle gets more and more…

— Ann Macbeth

Some people can't sing - like honestly - but they're famous anyway, and they might be famous for being an artist, which…

— Zara Larsson

“If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces.’ [ Blueprint for a Breakthrough (2013)]”

— Shane Koyczan

Films are born from screenplays and they are guided by words. They are born very limited and there is no space for…

— Alex Abreu

Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure…

— Louis Kahn

Marcel Duchamp, one of this century's pioneers, moved his work through the retinal boundaries which had been established with Impressionism into a…

— Jasper Johns

It isn't pleasant to surrender to the hegemony of a nation which is still wild and primitive, and to concede the absolute…

— Czeslaw Milosz

I kind of decided to take a year out to see where the music would go and then it started going somewhere…

— Florence And The Machine

There is a claim coming from the West that says that all art must be outside any moral consideration. I can understand…

— Tariq Ramadan

I suppose I felt doomed to be an artist early on because of the way I drew all over the books that…

— Nancy Spero

Art is one of the few products that is almost a totally emotional buy. It is a mystery what contributes to a…

— Ernest West Basden

“Don't we all know that art is dangerous. You play it - then you live it.”

— Stefan Balint

Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.

— Florence Nightingale

Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.

— Jerry Saltz

“It's only artists who know how to use their eyes”

— Grant Albert Camus

It’s an artist’s job to show people the world they live in. We hold up mirrors.

— Neil Gaiman

The language of art is celestial in origin and can only be understood by the chosen.

— El Greco

I didn't want to be a woman artist. I just wanted to be an artist.

— Isabel Bishop

How wonderful it feels to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century,

— Muriel Spark

Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand!

— Herman Melville

Art isn't something you do or are. It's where you aim, the target you shoot at.

— Elizabeth Ashley

Qigong is the art and science of refining and cultivating internal energy.

— Ken Cohen

Envy is the art of counting another's blessings instead of your own.

— Harold Coffin

A lot of cinematography is intuition. It's an art, not a formula.

— Reed Morano

You hope to be a part of something that makes you a better artist when you leave.

— Jasmine Cephas Jones

A lot of artists that I've met let me know they're huge fans of mine.

— DMX

Art is not to throw light but to be light...

— Kenneth Patchen