Art Quotes · Page 456

All good art is in the nature of a letter written to amuse a sick friend. Too much art, particularly in our…

— W. H. Auden

I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.

— Donald Judd

I wouldn't know any other way to live except to be an artist. I'm not very good at anything else.

— Fred Tomaselli

I love art because I feel that it's evidence of the great shared universal power. I like art that feels real, that…

— Ottessa Moshfegh

With everything that Tae and I do, we want to make sure it's true and honest to who we are as people…

— Maddie Marlow

Use your imaginations, and use your empathy. If you don't do that, you're limiting yourself as an artist, and you're hurting the…

— Brett Gelman

I feel I'm the most reallest black artist in England 'cause I give it to you how it is, whether I'm embarrassed…

— Mark Morrison

I have been the artist with the longest career, and I am so proud and honored to be chosen from heaven to…

— Michael Jackson

“My friend the philosopher and martial artist Daniele Bolelli once gave me a helpful metaphor. He explained that training was like sweeping…

— Ryan Holiday

It's a mystery to me why comics have been so despised for so long. Obviously, it has to do with the history…

— Jessica Abel

I don't mind being classified as a jazz artist, but I do mind being restricted to being a jazz artist. My foundation…

— Herbie Hancock

When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and…

— Sol LeWitt

I don't decide where I live. My wife decides. She's a curator of contemporary art, and she works at an art museum,…

— John Green

I'd say art is with you. All around you. I'd say when there doesn't seem to be anyone else, there is art.…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

My brother and sister were very sporty. They all did rugby. I was very into performing arts. I went to the National…

— Jonathan Anderson

“[...] follow freely the ideal you've set for yourself and which you must feel within you; be bold and confident in your…

— Jean Jacques Eigeldinger

Sometimes an artist can be good and they don't get the response or the attention that they deserve.

— Koffee

Let's be honest. We don't take rap serious the way other cultures take rock-n-roll, they take country. They artists are being loved.

— Master P

Mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual.

— Walter Benjamin

The only way I've been able to survive the betrayal of lovers, family members, and society is to be able to create…

— Madonna Ciccone

Being in a room full of my art makes me incredibly nervous because the work always gets damaged when it's shown, and…

— Charles Ray

“There is no literature and art without paranoia. Probably there would be even civilization. Paranoia is the world. It is the attempt…

— Thomas Pynchon

Film-makers in Belgium are seen as arts and crafts makers. It is a small country. There is not really a film industry…

— Luc Dardenne

Every politician, in order to be a politician, has to be adept at the art of one and one thing only, and…

— David Draiman

I deal with emotional pain through therapy, writing, therapy in music. I think emotional pain is best dealt with when you use…

— Naturi Naughton

Literature was intended to be dangerous. Art was meant to be dangerous. Ideas were nothing if they were not dangerous.

— Timothy Findley

Everywhere in the modern world there is neglect, the need to be recognized, which is not satisfied. Art is a way of…

— Louise Bourgeois

One difference between artists and ordinary people is that artists have big egos. In some cases, it's the only difference.

— Charles Atlas

You have to be a little patient if you're an artist. People don't always get you the first time.

— Kate Millett

There's so much great stuff out there. The artists who've been most formative to me are the ones I've had the privilege…

— Nick Blaemire

I suggest that the great art belongs to all people, all the time--that indeed it is made for the people, by the…

— Maya Angelou

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin,…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The revolutionary artist does not only focus on the negative aspects of capitalist lives, but also creates visions of a revolutionary future.

— Pablo Picasso

In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one…

— Anonymous

It's harder to be a success, globally, and be artistic. Harder to have that balance than just to be artistic when nobody…

— Andre Benjamin

“the increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.”

— Carl Sagan

Christendom appears clearly to me to be one of those trifling, insignificant arts, which has never been of any substantial advantage to…

— Edward Hicks

“complete standstill in all literary and artistic progress of any kind since Hitler because of the absence of Jews, the former leaven…

— Ian Fleming

When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work…

— Madeleine L'Engle

It is the art of mankind to polish the world, and every one who works is scrubbing in some part.

— Henry David Thoreau