Art Quotes · Page 408

“The Word that will change a man must first show the man who he really is.”

— Christian Michael

Know thy birth! For dost thou art, and shalt to dust return.

— John Milton

Advice to artists: always take the opportunity to shut up.

— Bill Jay

The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.

— Anonymous

My mother always told me I would be an artist.

— Princess Stephanie of Monaco

We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end.

— Nikki Giovanni

I love Lady Gaga. I think shes a really interesting artist.

— Britney Spears

I don't necessarily like being a TV personality, I just want to be an artist.

— Violet Chachki

Hip-hop culture is probably one of the most powerful things to come out of America in a long time - everything from…

— will.i.am

You can't steal an artist's songs and also tell him he can't license that music to a commercial.

— Jack White

A man is an artist only at certain moments, by an effort of will. Objects have the same appearance for everybody.

— Edgar Degas

Mastering an art is like reaching the top of the passion mountain… at the top the passion dies out! So keep learning.

— Siddharth Katragadda

The art of a news reporter is to learn how to lull a victim, because all good reporters are confidence tricksters in…

— Derek Tangye

It was a revelation for me, in a practical sense, that you could write in an African language and still reach an…

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

The cannabis experience has greatly improved my appreciation for art, a subject which I had never much appreciated before,

— Carl Sagan

“How to be listed as a dream in the mind of a young girl is an art, going out is a masterpiece.”

— Søren Kierkegaard

The perennial architectural debate has always been, and will continue to be, about art versus use, visions versus pragmatism, aesthetics versus social…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

And it's been one of my big sort of campaigns throughout my career, really, is to sort of make art accessible but…

— Grayson Perry

“Some day you will be able to step back and see the entire work of art. In that moment you will understand…

— Alex Alexander

Freedom is necessary for two reasons. It's necessary for the individual, because the individual, no matter how good the society is, every…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Of course, you want to be respected by your peers, and you want people to connect to you as an artist, but…

— Jamie Lynn Spears

I believe in advertisement and media completely. My art and my personal life are based in it. I think that the art…

— Jeff Koons

I don't have the education of an art historian. I've certainly read about art and look at art and have educated myself…

— Lynne Tillman

The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist…

— Damien Hirst

I love a sexy caper show, and I love shows about con artists.

— Retta

There was an art to the male posterior. That's all there was to it.

— Sarah Addison Allen

Art is a tool that isnt used enough to effect change.

— Mattias Klum

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

— Leonardo da Vinci

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

— Richard Avedon

The Painter who seeks popularity in Art closes the door upon his own genius.

— Washington Allston

It was written without fear and without research.

— Dorothy Parker

The artist lives in an atmosphere of perpetual failure.

— Harry Crews

The science is in knowing; the art in perceiving.

— Robert Fripp

The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.

— Leonardo da Vinci

I think artists are interested in what people think of them.

— Logic

Art is a person's private vision expressed in aesthetic forms.

— Chaim Potok

Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.

— Thomas a Kempis

The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.

— Andre Malraux

Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.

— Auguste Rodin

“There is no such thing as a perfect drawing, especially if you're ametur.”

— Mark Crilley