Art Quotes · Page 411

I think comedy is the hardest art form there is.

— John Popper

Those who rush are the same ones who lack technique.

— Ryron Gracie

Art is, from any point of view, the greatest of risks.

— Jean Helion

It's God - I recognised him from Blake's picture.

— Robert Frost

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about.

— Rumi

Music, art, landscape - these are all things I draw inspiration from.

— Josh McDermitt

I believe in artists. I'm an advocate for artists.

— Angela Robinson

Some small part of what the artist does is for approval of others.

— Terence Trent D'Arby

If you have science and art, You also have religion; But if you don't have them, You better have religion.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I imagine if Spotify becomes something that people are willing to pay for, then I'm sure iTunes will just create their own…

— Patrick Carney

Art is not living. It is the use of living. The artist has the ability to take the living and use it…

— Audre Lorde

Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size,…

— Robert Morgan

I love art and I find myself at the MoMA all the time. Museums are a real refuge for me. I go…

— Susan Stroman

It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.

— Oscar Wilde

Bjork has this kind of abstraction and formalism that you associate with art music or avant-garde music.

— David Longstreth

There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.

— Edmond de Goncourt

Chess is more than a game or a mental training. It is a distinct attainment. I have always regarded the playing of…

— Jose Raul Capablanca

In a way, editing is not unlike the movies. The best books, just like the best movies, are a collaboration. They're only…

— Viggo Mortensen

Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I…

— Annie Lennox

As a 17-year-old, I remember positively dreading dance sequences. I would come to shoots, quaking with nervousness at the idea of making…

— Hansika Motwani

“I have for many years endeavored to make this vital truth clear; and still people marvel when I tell them that I…

— Helen Keller

I think you just have to cross your fingers that there's enough artists out there that keep producing interesting work, and eventually…

— Geddy Lee

I didn't want to be that artist that is successful as a result of someone else. Not that that's wrong, but I…

— Kiesza

See, modern dance forms have a pull because the youngsters can relate to it, but it makes me happy to say that…

— Padmapriya Janakiraman

To blossom forth, a work of art must ignore or rather forget all the rules.

— Pablo Picasso

I love art, but I'm not an academic; I just like what I like.

— Lenora Crichlow

The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.

— Ad Reinhardt

I believe I can do things people think are impossible.

— Anderson Silva

I had trouble distinguishing art from life. I don't now, and I feel much better!

— Donald Fagen

Nude nail polish wins hands down over intricate nail art.

— Ashley Madekwe

It's nice to have a little bit of art to fall back on.

— Paul McCartney

I'm not an artist. I set the camera up and tell my story.

— Anonymous

There really is no such thing as art. There are only artists.

— Ernst Gombrich

“Her life is lived through the masterpiece of art, that she cannot draw.”

— Nikki Rowe

History is remembered by its art, not its war machines.

— James Rosenquist

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

— Salvador Dali

Great art always transcends its culture, while lesser art merely reflects it.

— Madeleine L'Engle

That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.

— James Taylor

“What if your art could provide everything you ever needed or wanted in life?”

— Patti Digh

I don't think there is too much art involved in what I do.

— Giorgio Moroder