Art Quotes · Page 435

I'm doing what all modern artists do now, which is nothing - just sit around and dream about things. I'll do what…

— Billy Al Bengston

It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is…

— Salvador Dali

Computers creating art is an upsetting concept mostly because of what it means about humans.

— Jonny Lee Miller

In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.

— Edward Abbey

The arts have always served relationships between people of different cultures so well. In a way, the arts function as a very…

— Herbie Hancock

Over the years with me maturing as an artist and as a person, I really learned to keep things in perspective.

— Omarion

I've never done a lot of collaborations. Truthfully, artists most of the time are so busy, they never get a chance to…

— Omarion

I was the first Arts Council official in the archipelago to do something for what you might call indigenous music.

— Michael Longley

Without a doubt, because now in the music business talent and hard work isn't enough. There is just a lot of luck…

— Jason C. Miller

Now do you not see that the eye embraces the beauty of the whole world? It counsels and corrects all the arts…

— Leonardo da Vinci

I studied art at Queens College, taking very few courses in literature. But I've always loved reading poetry and grew up enjoying…

— Douglas Florian

“Any path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is…

— Carlos Castaneda

I'm not a model, I'm an artist. In one of my videos, I'm doing this shot of me with no make-up on…

— Jessie J

This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything…

— Anton Chekhov

Obviously I've always loved singing and performing, but I fell in love with songwriting and then I enjoyed doing that for other…

— Kacey Musgraves

If you want to be an entertainer, then go be an entertainer and give people what they want. If you want to…

— Steven Wilson

It is not enough that a man has clearness of vision, and reliance on sincerity, he must also have the art of…

— George Henry Lewes

My Master of Arts degree means nothing at all to these monkeys and I have come to share their indifference.

— Charles Portis

We don't fight about music. We don't fight about artistic direction. The things like that we could fight about, we really don't.…

— Alan Cooper

I don't want there to always be this stigma of the "female" artist. "Oh, what does it feel like to be a…

— Willow Smith

“In order to be wildly popular you had to make people believe that you were fun and interesting I just wasn't that…

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

I allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create.

— Norman Granz

“Amongst many qualities of a true leader, he is a successful manager who has mastered the art of people management.”

— Rehan Waris

The Smithsonian museums are among this country's most endearing treasures and I look forward to helping maintain and enhance their coveted works…

— Xavier Becerra

Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.

— Yahoo Serious

I like to describe Himalayan climbing as a kind of art of suffering. Just pushing, pushing yourself to your limits.

— Wojciech Kurtyka

I realize that I live in the same environment that I did when I was a kid, but with less junk and…

— Narciso Rodriguez

I feel like the movie is reminding people of who they are, which is what I think all great art does.

— Brie Larson

The highest art is always the most religious; and the greatest artist is always a devout man. A scoffing Raphael or Michael…

— John Stuart Blackie

Getting people to go above and beyond the call of duty can be achieved but only if you, the artist, are willing…

— Tori Amos

If it gets to the Supreme Court, I'll have the directors of every museum in the country as expert testimony that my…

— Jock Sturges

I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

— Chuck Berry

“Beautiful, sad, wounded, and lost,” he continued. “A freak, a work of art, a liar, and a lover.”

— Karina Halle

Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.

— Whoopi Goldberg

Dad was a world-famous astronomer; Mom was the artist who drew the iconic Pioneer plaque.

— Nick Sagan

A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.

— Anonymous

Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it.

— Rene Magritte

I grew up as a kid looking at artists like David Bowie and Prince; I really admired them.

— Tessa Thompson

I love artists like Jon B, but I don't wanna be compared to anybody. I'm just doing my interpretation of rnb and…

— Brian Harvey

You cannot please all of the people all of the time, and that is truer in the arts than anywhere else.

— Theodore Bikel