Art Quotes · Page 502

The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the…

— Thomas Kinkade

The fight of satyagraha is for the strong in spirit, not the doubter or the timid. Satyagraha teaches us the art of…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music,…

— David Amram

“Nature scarcely seems capable of giving us any but quite short illnesses. But medicine has developed the art of prolonging them.”

— Marcel Proust

“It was an art, and like all arts it demanded mastery, discipline, study. Pain. That too.”

— George R.R. Martin

I think when I work with artists, I'm at their service, and I'm at the service of either their vision or a…

— Rostam Batmanglij

Usually when you put five girls together, especially when they've been solo artists, it doesn't turn out very well.

— Ally Brooke

I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius, or something very small, comes to the…

— Madeleine L'Engle

In the beginning I was just a makeup artist and I never really pictured myself doing anything else. But now that I…

— Jeffree Star

“It was just that i had the feeling that the art scene belonged to the men, and that I was in some…

— Jan Greenberg

There are no guidelines for what happens when you get successful as an artist. My heroes were artists like Acconci, and he…

— Robert Longo

Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design…

— Paul Cezanne

Art is the lens through which I experience the world. Art is the medium to present the human condition... love, fear, bewilderment,…

— Alton Tobey

Because Ivy [Wilkes] is just starting out as an artist, I wanted to focus on [Georgia] O'Keeffe's experiences when she was just…

— Liza Campbell

“Art is like a kite with an airplane propeller, OK? Artists are like people who have scuba tanks for lungs, OK? And…

— Jarod Kintz

We have banished our artists to the fringe of society and tell them to eat cake. It is our artists who choose…

— Peter Block

Art is a form of asset. Hedge-fund managers who have made money fast should diversify into other areas.

— Michael Steinhardt

Is it my role as an artist to say something, to express, to be expressive? I think it's my role as an…

— Anish Kapoor

Warhol had resonance because it was high art and low art. And you could argue about it endlessly.

— James Murphy

Chris Brown is a fantastic artist and songwriter and to be able to work with him was kind of unbelievable.

— Joe Jonas

Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.

— Oscar Wilde

I just want to be a storyteller, and I think the way to do that is by your lyrics, by your visuals,…

— Dawn Richard

As a political artist, I think you have to learn how to create art, no matter what your ideology is.

— Amiri Baraka

I have a pretty big range of interests. I love art; I love going to the museums. I dabble in painting, and…

— Mira Sorvino

I wonder whether there is such a thing as critical art. I suppose there are portraits of people who could destroy you.

— John Currin

My first book really did change my life. It allowed me to fully express myself. There was a sense that I was…

— Gary Shteyngart

Art is a subject that is inundated with opinions. In fact, that's all it is about is opinions.

— Chick Corea

I believe in tough love but I don't think I can ever be cruel to another artist. There are definitely better ways…

— Jennifer Lopez

In art there is compassion, in compassion there is humanity, with humanity there is generosity and love,' Peters said.

— Gregory Peck

It's really empowering when, as an artist, you can visualize something and then have the final product turn out the way you…

— Troye Sivan

If I do a lot of television, than I miss theater. If I do a lot of theater, than I miss film.…

— Richard Sammel

I know that the arts are important. I'm not denying that, but I can't associate myself with all the claptrap that goes…

— Anthony Hopkins

Historically a publicly unaccepted but incredibly rich culture, queer love was only able to exist privately for a long time, expressed in…

— King Princess

I don't work with an artist to try to blow up, but to see if the music can be medicine, if it…

— Kirk Franklin

“Obsesia premiilor semnifică o frustrare deloc stimulativă. Creaţia în artă fiind a solitudinii şi originalităţii, nu a onorurilor şi reclamei...”

— Norman Manea

Art should take what is complex and render it simply. It takes a lot of skill, human understanding, stamina, courage, energy, and…

— Anna Deavere Smith

Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art -- or almost the only stuff.

— D. H. Lawrence

Jed Perl writes precisely and ecstatically. Antoine' s Alphabet is a history and a fairy tale, a work of criticism, and a…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Twitter makes you improve your writing, The 140 character limit forces you to master the art of getting to the point.

— Anonymous

“Life is seen as an ongoing war between art and philistinism - and although the philistines may win some of the battles,…

— Helon Habila