Art Quotes · Page 399

If the world were clear, art would not exist.

— Albert Camus

The difference between fashion and art is that fashion is art in movement.

— Carolina Herrera

Art for art's sake. [Lat., Ars gratia artis.]

— Howard Dietz

only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.

— William Butler Yeats

“No...he lives to create art, but he loves to murder.”

— Mo Beija

Study the science of art and the art of science.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Meek is a great artist and he's very focused.

— Trina

The over-reliance on photography holds so many artists back.

— Jacob Collins

Matter and force are the two names of the one artist who fashions the living as well as the lifeless.

— Thomas Huxley

“Dancing is to music what a beloved wife is to her husband. Both of them are so in love, you can't separate…

— Paul Bamikole

The art of making a film and its content are far more interesting to me than the result or impact.

— Robert Redford

With streaming, everything is focused on singles. That means an artist's depth doesn't have the chance to shine through.

— Joe Hisaishi

The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I believe that an art exhibition can be engaging, fun and deeply intellectually satisfying and serious. These are not contradictory concepts in…

— Jeffrey Deitch

Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history of…

— Horace Mann

Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.

— Jules Verne

Anytime I have an idea, I'll make sure that I put it down so that when we do sit down to write…

— Neil Peart

“As a working definition of art, I lean toward Tolstoy's: "Art is a human activity having for it's purpose the transmission to…

— Gene Logsdon

If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back…

— John Major

One of my daughters wants to act, but none of them sing - well, one of them sings but she's got some…

— Ginuwine

Above all else, it is about leaving a mark that I existed: I was here. I was hungry. I was defeated. I…

— Felix Gonzalez-Torres

The way of the martial artist is the way of enduring, surviving and prevailing over all that would destroy him. More than…

— Toshitsugu Takamatsu

It's interesting to think about connecting the dots within an archive in a different way than linearly or teleologically. It's a great…

— Chitra Ganesh

I like art that challenges you and makes a lot of people angry because they don't get it. Because they refuse to…

— John Waters

The artist has to transcend a subject, or he loses the battle. The subject wins.

— Fritz Scholder

Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.

— Bertolt Brecht

All great art contains an element of the irrational.

— Edith Sitwell

Abstract art has helped us to experience the emotional power inherent in pure form.

— Anton Ehrenzweig

Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

— Lindsay Anderson

The aesthetic principle is the same in every art, only the material differs.

— Robert Schumann

I panic every time I put out a record. I think every artist does.

— Madonna Ciccone

I'm not a industry artist... just a artist in the industry

— Dmx

I've always believed applause is food for an artist.

— Engelbert Humperdinck

Sometimes people save the best part of themselves for their art.

— Ethan Hawke

I think all children love art, but not all get the opportunity to do it.

— Faith Ringgold

There are things that are not sayable. That’s why we have art.

— Leonora Carrington

Tupac was the first artist that I really related to.

— Christopher Jackson

The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art.

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

My strategy is not to give them a chance to hit me.

— Royce Gracie

If you're an artist, you're an artist; that's the only way I can explain it.

— Malik Bendjelloul