Art Quotes · Page 461

YOU are part of a creation, born from the same artist that created sunsets & rainbows. Don't ever allow yourself 2 think…

— Nishan Panwar

I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.

— Bill Griffith

I find being an adult very difficult. Being an adult artist, Asian American, incredibly difficult. Or trying, anyway.

— Min Jin Lee

All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.

— Ansel Adams

“Waiting to create sensual art with your fingers as brushstrokes and my body your blank canvas.”

— Christina Strigas

I have such deep appreciation for artists who have the ability to create something from within, something completely unique and original to…

— Jeremiah Brent

A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.

— Aberjhani

Good artists exist in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

— Dave Eggers

Ladies and gentlemen, if some of the leading artists in a civilization see a man urinating in another man's mouth and see…

— Dennis Prager

“Some paintings become famous because, being durable, they are viewed by successive generations, in each of which are likely to be found…

— Aldo Leopold

It is worth remembering that every writer begins with a naively physical notion of what art is. A book for him or…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Creativity is not linear, just like the earth is not flat…If you keep going long enough you will always get back to…

— Nikki Sixx

I always find it fascinating to ask people, why they've chosen to live their life as an artist? Why be an actor,…

— Ava DuVernay

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is…

— Oscar Wilde

Their [artists'] essential effort is to catapult themselves wholly, without holding back one bit, into a course of action without having any…

— Anne Truitt

This longing for knowledge makes the real artist brave. He never adheres to the first image that appears to him, because he…

— Michael Chekhov

Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.

— John Cage

Have little care that Life is brief, And less that Art is long. Success is in the silences Though Fame is in…

— Bliss Carman

I had no idea that I could sustain a career as an artist. But, I loved music and wanted to be in…

— Ray Stevens

As actors, we're like these vagabond artists: we have to be invited to perform, so if you don't have a choice of…

— Joel Kinnaman

House Speaker John Boehner and presumed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell understand the art of politics.

— Pete Hoekstra

We must grant the artist his subject, his idea, his donn´e: our criticism is applied only to what he makes of it.

— Henry James

The trouble with the artists this year is they are all obsessed with Twitter and headlines. It feels like they are all…

— Gary Barlow

I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

I have not become the artist I believe I am. I want to become a stadium act. I'm not done at all.

— Jimmy Cliff

When the arts are taken out of the syllabus, people are not going to know what it's like to value the theater.

— Jonathan Pryce

My business partner and make-up artist Kim Jacob and I have employed every member of staff, decided where every desk in the…

— Louise Nurding

What is love? In math, a problem. In history, a battle. In science, it's a reaction. In art, it's a heart.But to…

— MirandaaBoo

What then is the wisdom of the times called old? Is it the wisdom of gray hairs? No. It is the wisdom…

— Thomas Browne

As an artist, it is great to be able to market yourself to people who don't know you, and people who do.

— Tony Yayo

Honestly, I find so many fields - fashion, art, music - totally boring and restricting if you just stick to one of…

— Hunx

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

— Oscar Wilde

Art thrives on a difference of opinion. My treasure is your junk, sort of thing. Life would be dull if we all…

— Robert Genn

War is a matter of vital importance to the state; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin.…

— Sun Tzu

I think comedy as an art involves the audience as a participant as much as is involves the artist.

— Craig Ferguson

You know, criticism began as the province of amateurs, of wealthy men who liked the arts.

— Robert Christgau

Seriously, I lived in America for a while, I've been in lots of different bands, I write songs for all sorts of…

— Chesney Hawkes

And so artistic creation is the metamorphosis of the external physical aspects of a thing into a self-sustaining spiritual reality .

— Hans Hofmann

You think America is the biggest place on Earth, but it's not. [The view from Mir] put everything in perspective.

— Shannon Lucid

I think it's harder to make a classic now, not because of what people say, but because artists now are so concerned…

— Nas