Art Quotes · Page 415

Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering.

— Franz Kafka

People who just listen to music and are not a part of the creative community should realize that there is a lot…

— Kristoffer Rygg

In using the English language to create an entirely new art form, the pioneers of Hip Hop created a vessel that grew…

— Jamaal Bowman

I was a big fan of Jean-Claude Van-Damme growing up, and I always wanted to be a martial artist 'cause of him.

— Georges St-Pierre

A surprising number of scientific advances have been made and masterpieces of art created by individuals just on the threshold of adulthood.

— Benjamin Spock

If you're a struggling artist having money problems just superglue a brick in the middle of a blanket, and call it art.…

— Nicole McKay

[Human beings] will begin to recover the moment we take art as seriously as physics, chemistry or money.

— Ernst Levy

An artist usually has no friends except other artists, and usually they do not like his work.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the…

— Charles Baudelaire

It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy…

— Oscar Wilde

I wanted to know what exactly martial arts is. When you look at martial arts films, the later ones became more and…

— Wong Kar-wai

I tend to have a lot of jokes about ex-girlfriends. They always ask me if they will be the subject of a…

— Adam DeVine

You're always in a box, and you're an escape artist if you do what I do - or if you're a creative…

— Bruce Springsteen

I'm just a middle-class farm boy from Dodge City, Kansas. And I always thought that acting was art, writing was art, music…

— Dennis Hopper

Who are the happiest people on earth? A craftsman or artist whistling over a job well done. A little child building sand…

— Elbert Hubbard

For the mass of men the idea of artistic creation can only be expressed by an idea unpopular in present discussions -…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I can obviously relate to a character who is an artist, because the creative process is a big part of my life.

— Paul Dano

“I realized that the "thing" and the "concept" were substituted for feeling and understood the falsity of the world of will and…

— Kazimir Malevich

The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Only after seeing the winter, do you comprehend the richness of summer. This was a big theme, and one I could confidently…

— Martin Gayford

I have an art-school background, not a fashion background where it's like, 'Oh, we're going on holiday to Miami.'

— Giles Deacon

If heaven gives me ten more years, or an extension of even five years, I shall surely become a true artist.

— Hokusai

I am a real person that cares about his art and cares about what he's doing - I have a heart and…

— LL Cool J

It's like I'm basically an artist. I'm no different from a painter who sits there and loves what he does.

— Ralph H. Baer

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being…

— Robert Morgan

I am far less interested in serving as a change agent than in functioning as a prose artist, whether it's fiction or…

— James Howard Kunstler

The more I look at most of the art movements, it's all occultism, when you get down to it. The Surrealists were…

— Alan Moore

If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.

— Albert Camus

That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power.

— Anna Deavere Smith

I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear…

— Damien Hirst

Through eight years, 'How I Met Your Mother' has mastered the art of leading-edge comedy, emotional water-cooler moments, and pop culture catch-phrases.

— Nina Tassler

Shall I tell you what I think are the two qualities of a work of art? First, it must be indescribable, and…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Artists who take on curatorial activities have the advantage of negating the professional hurdles and limitations comprising institutions.

— Michelle Grabner

I don't feel there are enough women artists out there who are saying anything of tremendous relevance.

— Annie Lennox

'm always motivated by other artists and inspired by them. They inspire me because when I see other people doing great things,…

— Jennifer Lopez

I was used to having a job - ballet was my job, and I felt like I needed something artistic to focus…

— Margaret Qualley

Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen but society has chosen for us.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding…

— Anonymous

We started combining the use of light and the use of theatrics and the use of as many art forms as possible,…

— Alice Cooper

I'm a big believer in the transformative, exponential power of art, like a reverse pyramid scheme.

— Phil Lord