Art Quotes · Page 437

“Life is the ultimate artistic masterpiece, and it's up to you, the creator, to make it as wildly dazzling as possible.”

— Laura Resau

All art is communication of the artists' ideas, sounds, thoughts; without that no one will support the artist.

— Lionel Hampton

I know I'm going to be the next big hip-hop artist. I just want to save hip-hop... that's my job.

— Astro

I'm so in awe of what visual artists do and I do understand the differences of what visual artists do. I have…

— Lena Dunham

Real art is one of the most powerful forces in the rise of mankind, and he who renders it accessible to as…

— Zoltan Kodaly

I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn…

— Elizabeth McGovern

A work is not art until enough noise has been made about it and someone rich comes along and buys it.

— Alfred Stieglitz

Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy: It is a very personal affair and is necessary to each individual.

— Robert Henri

What one thing does the world need most today-apart, that is, from the all-inclusive thing we call righteousness? Aren't you inclined to…

— B. C. Forbes

“Duchamp thought it was for artists to decide what was and what was not a work of art. His position was that…

— Will Gompertz

“No artist has painted A true portrait of Lenin Ages to come will complete Lenin's unfinished portrait. Did Poletaev understand the tragic…

— Vasily Grossman

I think competition in any kind of activity like music, art, literature - anything that's not done with a timer - is…

— Emanuel Ax

The true art of being young is knowing how to defy gravity and upset as many people as possible while doing it.…

— Mick Rock

There's a bunch of songs that I call B-sides on the record that you could argue could maybe have some potential commercial…

— Aaron Bruno

Not only was [Edwin Land] one of the great inventors of our time but, more important, he saw the intersection of art…

— Steve Jobs

Writing can be taken up at any point. But you need to remember that the arts are fundamentally unfair. Hard work and…

— David Brin

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated…

— Joseph Conrad

I know I may not be the girl you knew before but I just be dealing with so much stuff so might…

— Brianna Ramos

The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage.

— Henri Matisse

To me, this is the most awesome kind of art. When the music is right, everybody is as much a part of…

— Michael Israel

Méret's Oppenheim art was aesthetically beautiful. Drinking champagne and eating a cherry off some tits, this is no big deal really.

— Rebecca Horn

I believe in the time when we shall be able to create works of art in the Theatre without the use of…

— Edward Gordon Craig

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and…

— Albert Camus

In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more…

— Jacques-Louis David

I see a movie as a way of learning about the world, about myself, and learning about my relationship with people and…

— Ang Lee

We have this idea of artists being on the fringe and being debauched and strange. I don't think that people who commit…

— Lola Kirke

In art, we are the first heirs of all the earth. . . . Accidents impair and Time transforms, but it is we who choose.

— Andre Malraux

The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship

— Kinky Friedman

the capacity to work feeds on itself and has its own course of development. This is what artists have going for them.

— Anne Truitt

The people of Texas are rightly proud of their own, just like the French and the Italians, but visiting artists have often…

— Clifford Ross

I've felt like my last name put pressure on me as an artist. If you're going to call yourself "Legend," you'd better…

— John Legend

“your eyes could inspire men to go to war, to paint works of art, to rip their goddamn heart out of their…

— Jay Crownover

With technology today you can sing like a frog and sound good. And then when you come on stage, what do you…

— Angelique Kidjo

We have to give our opinion, we have to say something, or we are a part of it. As an artist I…

— Ai Weiwei

An acceptance of your cultural inheritance, and at the same time a dislike of it, is a building block of good art.

— Carey Mercer

“dialectics, as a veteran communist explained . . . 'is the art and technique of always landing on your feet.”

— Tony Judt

I totally believe that art is an open dialogue and that it is not logical. It does not always make sense.

— Lynda Benglis

“Every act of art is a good faith attempt to arrest time – the motion of life – and make contact with…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Anything that's going to continue to keep you out there as an artist, you've got to appreciate and embrace it.

— Ginuwine

Like adverts, today's works of art aim to create a brand, even if they have no product to sell except themselves.

— Roger Scruton