Art Quotes · Page 548

I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so…

— Maggie Grace

“A man who works with his hands is a laborer. A man who works with his hands and his brain is a…

— Louis Nizer

Art is the way people see things, and I think it's great when individuals can find in fashion something they truly believe…

— Olivier Theyskens

The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.

— Arthur Erickson

Two individuals, conversing honestly, can be inspired by the feeling that they are engaged in a joint enterprise, aiming at inventing an…

— Theodore Zeldin

Sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.

— Itzhak Perlman

Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost…

— John Fowles

It's really amazing that I was discovered and that I've been given these great opportunities to travel the world and work with…

— Misty Copeland

“All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem…

— Alex Gerlis

The martial arts that I got into was because of Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan, because of all of the animal styles…

— Ray Park

I am not God. But I can only do my role here on this planet. The role I feel I was given…

— David LaChapelle

But in many orders of beauty, particularly those of the finer arts, it is requisite to employ much reasoning, in order to…

— David Hume

I'm a bit surprised that the Raiders turned to Art Shell to be their new head coach, not because Shell isn't a…

— Ron Jaworski

[Photography was necessary to] make my place in the art-world: in order to do this, I had to make a picture, since…

— Vito Acconci

It simply becomes more and more difficult as you move further away from your heyday, music being the only format where you're…

— Alison Moyet

A photocopier is a camera in its own right. I was fortunate to grow up in the time and culture that I…

— Wolfgang Tillmans

I admire actors and artists who devote just as much time to their life as they do to their work.

— Jake Gyllenhaal

I get to cry to Barbara Walters, when things don't go my way. I'll get community service no matter which laws I…

— Brad Paisley

If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.

— Salman Rushdie

So I'm happiest when I'm working with artists and writers, and involved in stories, whether we're talking about animation or movies or…

— Stan Lee

The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.

— Don Marquis

If there is some art involved, Id like it to be that it came through the cracks of daily work.

— Martin Mull

Women, in general, are not attracted to art at all, nor knowledge, and not at all to genius.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

That piece has been choreographed so badly so many times. I'm loathe to do it but I may eventually because it is…

— Mark Morris

“Works were expected to be microscopically accurate, properly ‘finished’ and formally framed, with proper perspective and all the familiar artistic conventions,”

— Malcolm Gladwell

I think a lot of artists no longer want to participate in or be associated with narrative because of its corruptedness in…

— Rachel Cusk

My mother is a poet/novelist, and my father was a pianist and cook. Both artists who colored my personality and brain in…

— Dove Cameron

I'm really visually stimulated more than anything. I don't really listen to music. I'm more into watching telly or watching movies and…

— Sia Furler

I am always rethinking how art is perceived and received, questioning our relationship to art. That's always been a constant.

— Rirkrit Tiravanija

Being an artist, it's always tempting to measure success through other people's eyes, be they critics, journalists or audiences.

— Sara Blecher

It's absurd for anybody to look around and hear the acts and artists who cite us as an inspiration, and then tell…

— Paul Stanley

I was born into a world of art. I always thought that in life, you breathe, you eat, you go to sleep…

— Paloma Picasso

The crimes of extreme civilization are certainly more atrocious than those of extreme barbarism.

— Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

— Honore de Balzac

I think, on one end, we need to understand that goalkeeping is an art and is also a very important position to…

— Edwin van der Sar

I first came across Dada at art school in the early 80s. It was funnier and more anarchic than anything else I…

— Vic Reeves

I wanna get on TV and just let loose. But can't, but it's cool for Tom Green to hump a dead moose.

— Eminem

I'm calling the Cube, it's a piece of art. At the same time, it's an intellectual task as well.

— Erno Rubik

In the sky we had rediscovered the moving principle of any work of art: the light, and the motion of color.

— Sonia Delaunay

Tolstoy's definition of art is the inverse of the truth; the task of art is to transform not perception into feeling, but…

— Raphael Soyer