Art Quotes · Page 405

It's just strange to think about...whether I'll be an artist or what I'll be doing.

— Bruce Nauman

Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.

— Walter Scott

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

— Benjamin Disraeli

History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page.

— Lord Byron

I admire hip-hop artists because they drop so much music.

— Yungblud

“This whole life is an art of knowing when to sit and when to stand up!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

— Lionel Trilling

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

— Mason Cooley

The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of mother-love or patriotism or art: but lust is less likely…

— Anonymous

An artist always know everything he does, you know what I'm saying, all the record he starts and don't end up in…

— Nipsey Hussle

Life is short, he thought. Art, or something not life, is long, stretching out endless, like [a] concrete worm. Flat, white, unsmoothed…

— Philip K. Dick

There are certain artists and filmmakers who, I get the impression, are trying to show off how bad their characters can be,…

— Adrian Tomine

I think a lot of the time, comic art is dismissed as... not art, and comic writing is dismissed as not literature.

— Lights

“...for all art is one, as Kipling has written, and your art chooses you, not you the art.”

— Michael Powell

The industry needs to be run by artists, because we are the only people that care about art.

— Nikki Sixx

I think a businessman can be an artist just as much as a writer or a sculptor, so I'm real proud of…

— Phil Knight

When creativity has become your habit; when you've learned to manage time, resources, expectations, and the demands of others; when you understand…

— Twyla Tharp

There are dangers for an artist in any academic environment. Academia rewards people who know their own minds and have developed an…

— Christian Wiman

In high school, I was very active in extracurricular activities such as art, theatre, and choir. I also wrote for the school…

— Meg Cabot

“Beautiful surroundings, the society of learned men, the charm of noble women, the graces of art, could not make up for the…

— Willa Cather

“What’s ensued is a battle over ethical conduct, artistic freedom, and censorship in which every side—the activist zealots who threatened violence, the…

— Andrea K. Scott

Suddenly, I saw it in a new way, as a picture that offered me a new view, free of all the conventional…

— Gerhard Richter

I do feel like animated films really combine a lot of different of art forms: film-making and writing and drawing and painting…

— John Musker

“Pop music does not throw the same cultural weight it once did; its ideas and challenges are no longer central to social…

— Dan Fox

“Work on. " Work as if every time you started with and every time you finish.”

— Anonymous

Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.

— Albert Camus

As an artist, comfort can be your worst enemy.

— Nelly Furtado

There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.

— Charles Dickens

Courting that darkness is real privilege of art.

— Fred Hechinger

My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.

— Tadao Ando

The upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn.

— D. H. Lawrence

I think for me, any great art is art which communicates human emotion.

— Greg Lake

“For art is about desire, is it not, and never its consummation?”

— A. Manette Ansay

Beauty lies in viwer's eyr, but you must know the art of Expression..

— Rajiw Shrivastava

If you want to explore, go do it. If you want to try different types of art, do it.

— Lights

Kill the idea of the lone, suffering artist. Don't make it any harder on yourself.

— Natalie Goldberg

I was truly ignorant about art before the film.

— Claire Forlani

“As cultural politics change, museums change with them.”

— Sharon Waxman

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

— George Bernard Shaw

Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist.

— Paul Gauguin