Art Quotes · Page 487

On the sixth day, God created the artist, realizing no doubt that He had far from exhausted the uses of color.

— Robert Breault

“[…] he is the artist of his own life, and created it for himself every hours to suit his latest whim.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

It is a fine art because it strives for an ideal, not only in plastic but also in lyrical respect.

— August Bournonville

I have long been convinced that my artistic ideal stands or falls with Germany. Only the Germany that we love and desire…

— Richard Wagner

Way up in the nosebleeds we watched him on the screen, they'd hung between the billboards so cheaper seats could see.

— Tom Petty

The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing; museums are scaling back.

— Jerry Saltz

“Dost think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale?" (Twelfth Night)”

— William Shakespeare

All martial art is simply an honest expression of one's body — with a lot of deception in between.

— Bruce Lee

A sight game is that I am hurt, but I aim to make you believe I am not even hurt, and with…

— Evander Holyfield

There is something abominable about cameras, because they possess the power to invent many worlds. As an artist who has been lost…

— Robert Smithson

An art project, a hands-on science experiment, or a special field trip can transcend textbooks and flash cards. No one knows this…

— Charles Best

“If I were only allowed to read or enjoy art or listen to music made by people whose opinions and beliefs were…

— Neil Gaiman

I detest my past, and anyone else's. I detest resignation, patience, professional heroism and obligatory beautiful feelings. I also detest the decorative…

— Rene Magritte

* People look better with a smile. * Hair is a big deal to people. * People feel attractive and in shape,…

— Ezell Thompson

It's hard for me to say what would happen if I didn't go to art school. It wasn't that I learned any…

— John Dyer Baizley

The painters have no copyright on modern art!... I believe in, and make no apologies for, photography: it is the most important…

— Edward Weston

I'd love to be an artist. My mum is so talented and she used to design her own greetings cards. I'm crap…

— Daisy May Cooper

Everybody has some talents - we all have an art side and some talent - but you have some areas where you…

— Olivier Martinez

The Kessler Theater is one such gem, an Art Deco beauty … for a slice of real life, there’s always the Kessler.

— Ben Fountain

A lot of artists make art for five years, some artists make art for ten years, a few make art for fifteen:…

— Doseone

All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task…

— Rollo May

I see psychoanalysis, art and biology ultimately coming together, just like cognitive psychology and neuroscience have merged.

— Eric Kandel

There are so many artists who get to my age that get comfortable and just stick in a groove, and I really…

— Paul Weller

“I had come down here, not to serve God as a craftsman should, but to show my people how great a craftsman…

— Rudyard Kipling

In the 1980s, Josef Beuys planted the seed that activism could be considered as art. I am influenced by the idea of…

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

There's a side that I want to do just like really retarded arty films like parody, pretentious art films that kind of…

— Andy Milonakis

Clown' was written when I couldn't find anyone who believed in me as an artist. Maybe those labels will think twice next…

— Emeli Sande

Modern music is people who can't think signing artists who can't write songs to make records for people who can't hear.

— Frank Zappa

This concern which interests us more than anything else: the blurring of the distinction between art and life.

— Marcel Duchamp

There is an art, a science to gaining power. There is a natural force or inclination in all of our beings to…

— Frederick Lenz

What really made me a performance artist was that I was able to step back and assess. I've always had [that ability],…

— Kalup Linzy

Artists are always searching for beauty - and when they find it and fashion it in their own unique way - it…

— John Kurtz

I like dirty boys. Mechanics, construction workers, artists who get paint and clay everywhere. They gotta have rough hands.

— Tamara Feldman

This funding from the National Endowment for the Arts has been like the Good Housekeeping seal of approval.

— Norm Dicks

My natural orientation has never been among a community of writers, really. For some reason my social world has always been in…

— Rachel Kushner

I can hope that the economy gets better, or I can seek a more proactive approach to protect our employees, reward our…

— Michael Rapino

I was brought up in a car family, my dad loved cars and I was taught the art of making an Austin…

— Nick Mason

Art and propaganda have this much connection, that if a propaganda makes art impossible, it is clearly damned.

— Rebecca West

I always felt like an outsider to the music world in a certain way. There was so much less of an art…

— Kim Gordon

“He agreed with David Hockney that an artist really had to be able to draw before anything else could be achieved.”

— Alexander McCall Smith