Art Quotes · Page 396

An artist is someone who has learned to trust in himself.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

I don’t believe that crime, danger and poverty make for good art. That’s bullshit.

— David Byrne

I'm sure that the camera is part of European art.

— David Hockney

I cannot solve the problem of life by losing myself in the problem of art.

— Tina Modotti

In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing.

— Vincent Van Gogh

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

— Oscar Wilde

You will never love art well until you love what she mirrors better.

— John Ruskin

It gives me more breadth as an actor and as an artist to not be pigeonholed.

— Jeff Bridges

I really want to continue doing art. I would love to go back to doing paintings one day.

— Abbi Jacobson

My shadow in my art is one way I trace who I was and where I have been. My shadow and I…

— Angela Cartwright

A real jiu-jitsu fighter does not go around beating people down. Our defense is made to neutralize aggression.

— Helio Gracie

Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.

— Ralph Bakshi

I define art as a work created by a human that has a unique point of view and discovers something that was…

— Signe Baumane

“She had never seen me draw–because not drawing and forgetting everything I knew about art, I thought, was the magic key to…

— Kurt Vonnegut

As an artist, expectations are basically your enemy. If you're truly making something to make it, then you're not thinking about anything…

— Kevin Drew

Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems.

— Walter Gropius

Everything is gestation and bringing forth. To let each impression and each germ of feeling come to completion wholly in itself, in…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Being unique seems more desirable than ever. People are exhausted by clichés, by platitudes, by mass-produced realities, by what's been done and…

— Porochista Khakpour

For I am every dead thing In whom love wrought new alchemy For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness,…

— John Donne

Through our own creative experience we came to know that the real tradition in art is not housed only in museums and…

— Lawren Harris

I discovered the 7th art at home when I was kid, through Charlie Chaplin's movies and those of my father who shot…

— Lasse Hallstrom

What's happening in the larger world always influences art. When I first started the gallery in 1959, one of the first things…

— Virginia Dwan

Flee laziness which while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is…

— Pietro Aretino

So you might say, 'Why do you end up making theatre in a world in which there is already too much of…

— Simon McBurney

I always wanted to become an artist who unites things.

— Sergei Polunin

Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.

— Oscar Wilde

A society that forgets about art risks loslng its soul.

— Camille Paglia

There will be as much deceit and criminality in the world as there is lack of art.

— Rudolf Steiner

Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do.

— Raymond Mortimer

“Art always reaches its peak where it becomes the life interest of a people.”

— Stefan Zweig

I grew up doing martial arts, and I'm a second-degree black belt.

— Laura Vandervoort

Studying technical design and art gave me the ability to see things in 3-D.

— Anastasia Soare

Anyone can get beaten in mixed martial arts. It's the nature of the sport.

— Forrest Griffin

The artist who makes himself accessible is self-destructive.

— Howard Barker

Ah, what a grudge I owe physicians! what mummery is their art!

— Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

I think as an artist you evoke feeling and change and through that you send a message.

— Kristanna Loken

The foremost art of Kings is the power to endure hatred.

— Seneca the Younger

I am not a dancehall artist, and I am not a reggae artist.

— OMI

Part of my agenda has been to support art that engages life with people.

— Jeffrey Deitch

In sales, as in medicine, a prescription before diagnosis is a mistake in the arts.

— John Naisbitt