Art Quotes · Page 49

Art demands constant observation.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Art is a self-replicating force.

— Jerry Saltz

Never trust the artist, trust the tale.

— D.H. Lawrence

I love a bit of nail art, I'm a girly girl.

— Daisy Lowe

The personality is a work of art.

— Diana Vreeland

The earth has music for those who listen.

— George Santayana

An artist paints his own reality.

— Ernie Barnes

Music is the only art that actually lives.

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.

— Eugenio Montale

All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war.

— Walter Benjamin

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

— Casey Stengel

I like writing all different kinds of songs. I've wanted to run the gamut of artists.

— Diane Warren

Beyond the rudiments, it is up to the artist to create art, not the camera.

— Brett Weston

“Faking a smile The only art I'll make sure you'll never have to master”

— Ismaaciil C. Ubax

Once an artist makes his personal life public, he can't close that door.

— Romeo Santos

If a character artiste accepts too many small roles his career dies a slow death.

— Mukesh Rishi

Chicago was where I realized that improv is its own thing, its own art form. And through that, you kind of develop…

— Thomas Middleditch

“Worthiness alone is not the key to learning and will do little to boost your morale; be prepared to enjoy yourself.”

— Viv Levy

The final true artform in what we're talking about is the goal itself. And for us to try and stop that from…

— Kasey Keller

When I was a kid, there were probably 100 schools in the Bay Area that just did martial arts.

— Scott Coker

The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.

— C.D. Wright

After I got back my career and my artistic freedom in 1982, my golden rule is the music must never suffer.

— Chris Rea

For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no…

— Oscar Wilde

The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible.

— Allan Kaprow

[After viewing the Palace of Electricity at the 1900 Trocadero Exposition in Paris] [Saint-Gaudens and Matthew Arnold] felt a railway train as…

— Henry Adams

Art is a subjective thing, and it should be a subjective thing. And the difficulty of subjectivity is that it becomes hugely…

— Tim Crouch

He [Bernardo Bertolucci] has the kind of talent that breaks one's heart: where can it go, what will happen to it? In…

— Pauline Kael

I've been arrested a few times, but I've never been in real trouble. Because what I do is art and even if…

— Invader

I don't think life owes me anything and the business doesn't owe me anything. The only way to approach it is by…

— Bryan Cranston

We seem to have lost contact with the earlier, more profound functions of art, which have always had to do with personal…

— Peter London

If you have the opportunity to have the best of the artist, then if you overpay, it doesn't matter. Eventually, the market…

— Norman Braman

I think that there will always be artists out there who think they need to sign a major label deal in order…

— Macklemore

For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.

— John Dryden

We are artists, because God is.

— Peter Kreeft

We do not judge great art. It judges us.

— Caroline Gordon

“Artists thrive on suffering.”

— Irving Stone

Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.

— Georges Braque

Art is the highest form of hope.

— Gerhard Richter

Imagination is a powerful deceiver.

— Elvis Costello

“artists have sex but art has none”

— Oscar Wilde