Art Quotes · Page 542

Being a creative person, I'm naturally drawn towards art of any kind. But I'm more attracted to paintings because they radiate an…

— Dimple Kapadia

My mom's an artist in every way. She's a painter, a photographer. She's a wanderer - always searching, always seeing. I guess…

— Jason Momoa

At a time when there is so much tension in the world - between cultures, and nations, and so forth - there…

— Emma Walton Hamilton

“Art must always stand guard against stirring emotions that lie outside the aesthetic: sexual arousal, terror, disgust, shock.”

— Milan Kundera

I know your breed; all your fine officials debauch the younger girls who are afraid to lose their jobs: that's as old…

— Christina Stead

So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.

— Berthold Auerbach

Without arts programmes there's only reality TV, and reality TV needs the arts to show it what reality is.

— Billy Connolly

“In any first-class work of art, you can find passages that in themselves are extremely boring, but try to cut them out,…

— W.H. Auden

I'm a natural born fighter, so this is what I do, and it's normal. It's natural. It's what I've always done as…

— Anderson Silva

“Acting on desire is more like a craft, a science, an art. It takes careful mindful practice. Be patient and quiet. Listen,…

— David Barringer

It's not my concern to make a commercial pop record. I want to make a record of music that I would listen…

— Crystal Bowersox

Fashion for me is another way I get to express myself creatively. It is one of the fun things I get to…

— Rihanna

“When I see individuals so passionate for their chosen field, I feel a very strong sense of belonging. Passion unites us –…

— Thomas Brown

A liberal education forms a single body. Those, therefore, who from tender years receive instruction in the various forms of learning, recognize…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

But, as sculpture and painting are gifts of God, what I insist on is, that both shall be used purely and lawfully,…

— John Calvin

“Actual artists are like mythological creatures,' she heard herself opine. 'You hear about them, but a sighting's pretty rare.”

— Garth Risk Hallberg

I believe strongly that the word 'protest' is no excuse for bad work. The artist must create.

— John Kani

Originally, I thought of being a photographer and nearly went to art school, but I got a record deal instead.

— Roisin Murphy

An inability to choose is a hallmark of anxiety... The too-anxious artist, afraid to choose, will halt dead in the water.

— Eric Maisel

I realized... that the artist is always alone. Early in life I had thought I needed other people to confirm or approve…

— Beverly Pepper

Trophies or no trophies, we are all just striving to do some really good art and help people's lives with it.

— No I.D

“The essence of life is mastering the art of giving love freely and welcoming it with open arms.”

— Brandon Hultman

I cannot live without art: it excites me, it challenges me, and it leads me to the next thing.

— Francisco Costa

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.

— Anonymous

The arts can be a great way to bring people together. I don't preach from the stage. I try to stay positive…

— Bonnie Raitt

[My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.'

— Salvador Dali

Just because something causes you to have a feeling of aesthetic beauty does not make it a work of art.

— Fred Ross

[Audubon's works are] the most splendid monuments which art has erected in honor of ornithology.

— Georges Cuvier

Art is the filigrain of a little mind, and is twisted and involved and curled, but would reach farther if laid out…

— Horace Walpole

One's art is just one's effort to wed oneself to the universe, to unify oneself through union.

— Robert Motherwell

Mixed Martial Arts is a dangerous practice that could result in injuries and loss of life.

— Akshay Kumar

A master of an art is someone who's been mastered by the art. They've become so one with what they teach that…

— Frederick Lenz

You see, Suzanne, history lectures bore me, art films bore me, your friends bore me, and, if you want to know the…

— Francine Pascal

“Did anyone tell Toscanini, or Bach, that he had to choose between music and family, between art and a normal life?”

— Elizabeth Mann Borgese

To me the most interesting thing about man is that he is an animal who practices art and science and in every…

— Jacob Bronowski

I am in the lineage of Gil Scott-Heron, great activist-type artists. But I'm also in the lineage of a Miles Davis -…

— Kanye West

Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies.

— Anonymous

As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.

— Bridget Riley

Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are…

— Alex North