Art Quotes · Page 386

I don't life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

— Aldyna Threesya

Oh do not die, for I shall hate All women so, when thou art gone.

— John Donne

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

— Marcus Aurelius

The real function of art is to change mental patterns ... making new thought possible.

— Jean Dubuffet

Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.

— Toni Morrison

I will revolutionise art and the world. Hurrah!

— Italo Calvino

I was a very insecure, self-conscious kid, and as an artist even more so.

— Eugene Lee Yang

My goal has always been to just be a person who makes great art.

— Hayley Kiyoko

I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.

— Kate Bush

“Keating stood still, because he understood for the first time what it was that artists spoke about when they spoke of beauty.”

— Ayn Rand

You can sand something forever. You can keep working on it. All the arts are like that: there's no magical finish line.…

— Samuel Ervin Beam

A photograph can, by the addition of an unimportant spot of color, become a photomontage, a work of art of a special…

— John Heartfield

I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art.

— Arsene Wenger

Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.

— Benjamin Walker

The artistic desire reveals itself in dark form - in karaoke bars [or] trolling on the Internet.

— Young-Ha Kim

Fairs are beneath the dignity of art. To stand there in a booth and hawk your wares - it is just not…

— Arne Glimcher

There are so many different ways to make art. And so many good stories. You don't have to have a budget. I…

— Amandla Stenberg

My art teacher was really encouraging me, because he really liked that I could draw. I felt very torn. At that time,…

— Maria Cornejo

When I was about seven, one or two people encouraged me, and art became an enormous and important refuge. By adolescence, I…

— John Berger

The underlying tension of a lot of my art is to try and look through the surface appearance of things. Inevitably, one…

— Andy Goldsworthy

The present government is very insistent that business sponsorship should replace government sponsorship of the arts. Business sponsorship won't happen unless you…

— Peter Maxwell Davies

“Love is a word that is constantly heard, Hate is a word that is not. Love, I am told, is more precious…

— Ogden Nash

The great thing about the Guggenheim is that you can see art in the fastest way if you want to. Which isn't…

— Vito Acconci

There are many artists that I know exactly where they are born and what their names are and where they live, which…

— Tobias Forge

Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world.

— Albert Camus

The best way to truly understand narrative art is to experience it.

— George Lucas

You have to write and develop and wait for the world to catch up to your art.

— Lena Waithe

One of the makeup artists once dyed my dog blue with vegetable blue.

— Mia Kirshner

The arts don't care what your background is. They belong to everyone.

— Adrian Dunbar

“Great art is in the eye of the beholder, but great football is in the record books.”

— Scott Sigler

“the indifference of the natural world to the constructions of art”

— Lawrence Durrell

I fell in love with singing and I love idolizing artists.

— Ruel

The art of life is to live in the present moment

— Emmet Fox

“To make great art, one first must become insane and desperate.”

— The Book of the Samurai

I think much sociopolitical art delivers truisms that are quite flat.

— Harland Miller

I think as an artist or a writer it's OK to want to control your own work.

— James Frey

You know, the record business is much different than being artist on stage.

— Herb Alpert

Sometimes an artist is lost and needs to find a new direction for himself or his music.

— David Ruffin

Howard Ashman was an amazing lyricist and an amazing artist.

— Alan Menken

Ultimately, the artistic part of architecture has always interested me.

— Ma Yansong