Art Quotes · Page 371

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

— Pablo Picasso

You didn't have to wash it as often and it hid the blood stains better!

— Adriano Directo Emperado

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

— Anonymous

The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.

— Piet Mondrian

It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Science and art are the handmaids of religion.

— Francois Delsarte

“Shut the F--- up and create your f---ing art.”

— Garrett Robinson

On the artist's journey we are redefining and reconfiguring ourselves and our lives.

— Steven Pressfield

I've met a lot of artists who wanted to paint me. LeRoy Neiman was one. He did it from a photograph. He…

— Shaquille O'Neal

All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.

— Eckhart Tolle

A contemporary artist like Grayson Perry is brilliant partly because of his expert knowledge of art history, not despite it.

— Munira Mirza

There's a place for art in the world, but it can't be at the top of the list for a working screenwriter.

— Christopher Markus

To me, nothing in the art world is neutral. The idea of 'disinterest' strikes me as boring, dishonest, dubious, and uninteresting.

— Jerry Saltz

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

— Vincent Van Gogh

For me, music is sort of the art that I can't incorporate into my person the way I want to.

— Jonathan Lethem

“It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with, we cease to see.”

— Anaïs Nin

As for the industry, it has certainly changed. I think with all of these television shows and YouTube and the internet, you…

— Olivia Newton-John

I was selling a piece of my art on eBay from The Escapist, which was an adaptation of The Adventures of Kavalier…

— Eric Wight

Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles,…

— Guy de Maupassant

I am damnably sick of Italy, Italian and Italians, outrageously, illogically sick… I hate to think that Italians ever did anything in…

— James Joyce

Back in the day, I used to get really upset when people used to say that I didn't really make all my…

— Kali Uchis

I think, sometimes, artists release music too fast. If you just sit back and listen to the track for a little bit…

— Schoolboy Q

The idea that a poem was a made thing stayed with me, and I decided then that I wanted to be an…

— Edward Hirsch

In the West, the art of rock climbing is growing because it has to do with less risk, good muscles. But the…

— Reinhold Messner

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The real function of the artist is to give fresh vision to their own generation.

— Doris McCarthy

I wanted to be an artist; it was be an artist or be an actor.

— Josh O'Connor

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter.

— Leo Tolstoy

I made my own major called art and business as religion.

— Billie Lourd

Art without technique is invertebrate, shapeless, characterless.

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

A lot of the art that I've bought is from friends.

— Evan Mock

Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.

— Walter Darby Bannard

Every work of art which really moves us is in some degree a revelation: it changes us.

— Lawren Harris

You should be able to deliver what the artist you're working with wants.

— Scott Storch

Art is long, and critics are the insects of a day.

— Randall Jarrell

Im not big on make up. I only have a make up artist for events.

— Madison Beer

I have a small house so I borrow everything except art, that's what I love.

— Salma Hayek

As a performing artiste, we always need love and support from family.

— Shweta Tripathi

“The body is an art to give pleasure to the soul”

— Marina G. Roussou

The music industry needs a TV outlet for hip-hop fans and artists.

— Ghostface Killah