Art Quotes · Page 427

I'm not an artist or a collector. I'm a skateboard kid with no one to tell me if I'm not doing things…

— Leo Fitzpatrick

I'm not sure I am a politician. I would say that I am still an artist, and I'm trying to use politics…

— Edi Rama

“A degree in art doesn’t automatically make you an artist any more than lacking a degree precludes you from becoming an artist.”

— Ted Orland

“You have to feel so much and too much- for you to be able to make good art. Sometimes, it's the only…

— Rej Jaen

Here at Z100, we're kind of famous for breaking new artists and watching their careers bloom.

— Elvis Duran

Senator Helms might very well do that. I would point out to him that we in the art world are not necessarily…

— Jane Alexander

Alexander Trocchi was an existentialist. He was looking at an alienated artist in the post-war period. It's modern because it applies now…

— Tilda Swinton

I'm not knocking conceptual art; it's another department, but it doesn't move me like painting.

— Paul Simonon

I recommend that you should work actively... and study the artistic structures of Rubens, Rembrandt, Titian, Watteau, Poussin, and other painters, even…

— Kazimir Malevich

If the image was sketched onto the canvas and spontaneously drawn, colour would often be restrained and unfree... The most important and…

— Asger Jorn

In any piece of art, the artist pours themselves into it. It becomes a reflection of who they are and what they…

— Travis Knight

A woman cannot do the thing she ought, which means whatever perfect thing she can, in life, in art, in science, but…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I didn't dare to think of anything then except the "facts." To get beneath the facts I would have had to be…

— Henry Miller

All television is an advertisement - that's why it exists. It wasn't the art-form first and then the commerce - it was…

— Chris Hardwick

Mission accomplished. The Museum of Modern Art's wide-open, tall-ceilinged, super-reinforced second floor was for all intents and purposes built to accommodate monumental…

— Jerry Saltz

What it means to be human is to bring up your children in safety, educate them, keep them healthy, teach them how…

— Jeanette Winterson

While doing movies, I enjoyed every bit of it - the ambience, my co-stars, my roles, the art of getting under the…

— Pooja Bedi

If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a…

— John Dryden

Martial arts gave me everything in life. It is not about a paycheck; it is about how I live my life.

— Mirko Cro Cop

I see guys with, like, eyebrow art, and I wanna tell them, 'You don't have to go too crazy on your brows.…

— Ryan Reynolds

All musicians and artists - we all got quirks that have to be put up with at certain times.

— Dickey Betts

In my view, Zhang Lanxin is one of our best female martial artists, and I can't rate her highly enough.

— Jackie Chan

“As artists, poets, healers, teachers, keepers of the sacred law, philosophers, astrologers, etc., their influence was extensive. A”

— Sophie Cornish

I tried martial arts classes for three weeks, but I quit because you actually get hit. I just want to do the…

— Tamara Taylor

In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.

— Susan Sontag

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Rock art sites were symbolic vaginas, and entry into the wall of a rock art site was thus akin to intercourse.”

— James David Lewis-Williams

I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express…

— Andrea Bocelli

I think the role of artists in the past was very different. Artists had less responsibility in many ways.

— Marina Abramovic

“Thy Importance, Not know'st thou. Thou art Adam Whom angels bow. Thou art light of God; Thou art soul to the soul.…

— Asif

The good thing about being an artist, is it's a legitimate way of looking at things cross-eyed.

— John Chamberlain

Somewhere in my head, a private conviction exists that 'Search is the Process' and 'Discovery the Art Form.

— Abe Ajay

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

— Roy Blount, Jr

“The White House usually followed the seagull theory of management: fly in, squawk and flap and shit, and fly away.”

— John Frohnmayer

Football is the priority, even more than school. Art is frowned upon. I had to sneak music in.

— Kevin McCall

Growing up, watching pop music icons, I never saw a solo artist whose main instrument was drums.

— G Flip

My thing is, for artists who are having success, being given an award shouldn't be the thing that defines you in the…

— Craig David

For the structure that we raise, Time is with materials filled; Our to-days and yesterdays Are the blocks with which we build.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

As a lifelong practitioner of martial arts, I'm trained to remain calm in the face of adversity and danger.

— Steven Seagal

You make alterations, affecting your pose, a new house, a new car, a new job, a new nose.

— Ray Davies