Art Quotes · Page 552

Art is the reordering of nature - the qualities of space and time - in new perceptual and material form.

— Daniel Bell

There's a perception that if an artist produces another artist, they're going to imprint on them. But I'm the opposite.

— Beck

From my father, I got more of the artistic, the human, the sweet part. From my uncle I really learned the business…

— Maurizio Gucci

A Locanian having plucked all the feathers off from a nightingale and seeing what a little body it had, "surely," quoth he,…

— Plutarch

It seems to me that what the artist sees is the simple and obvious that is invisible to everybody else.

— Hubert Selby, Jr

There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.

— Plato

I see martial arts as moving forms of meditation. When you're sparring or drilling techniques, you can't think of anything else.

— Joe Rogan

Film is the only art form whose raw materials are so horrendously expensive that the artist cannot afford to buy them for…

— Charlton Heston

Degas was obsessed by the art of classical ballet, because to him it said something about the human condition. He was not…

— John Berger

In the commercial music world, the folk world, we sell records and concert tickets - this is the way I make a…

— Rhiannon Giddens

And I don't consider Broadway the acropolis of theatrical art. I mean Broadway is commercial - that's what it is. It's expensive…

— Tony Kushner

Of course, it's wonderful to film any period piece - but especially 'Foyle's War' because the art direction is so imaginative and…

— Honeysuckle Weeks

Sometimes we do derive some entertainment when we 'appreciate' something, and sometime we feel something when we're moved. So a lot of…

— Randy Pitchford

“Everything is gestation and bringing forth. To let each impression and each germ of a feeling come to completion wholly in itself,…

— Guy Claxton

I don't really follow that many celebrities on social media. I mainly follow artists. As someone who loves to draw and make…

— Joe Sugg

Just as our taste in lovers is far more revealing than our choice of friends, the object of an artist's obsession can…

— Vince Aletti

I consider myself first of all an artist. My work is about my creativity - why I create and not for whom.

— Raoul Peck

Be orderly and disciplined in daily life, like a good bourgeois, so that I might be wild and violent in my art.

— Gustave Flaubert

Since German reunification in 1990, historians and researchers have been free to work in the East, where the lost Nazi art collection disappeared.

— Stephen Kinzer

“If seeing her an hour before her last Weak cough into all blackness I could yet Be held by chalk-white walls -…

— Mervyn Peake

For me, sampling is a high art. Most people don't see it that way, but it's a beautiful thing. I wouldn't know…

— JPEGMAFIA

I'm a joker who has understood his epoch and has extracted all he possibly could from the stupidity, greed and vanity of…

— Pablo Picasso

One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.

— Uta Hagen

Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.

— Alexander Pope

“Our Father who art in nature...must have a great and overwhelming love for no-goods and blots-on-the-town and bums, and Mack and the…

— John Steinbeck

The local painters were my idols...These artists, too, were grown-ups, but they were grown-ups who could still see! Their eye was still…

— Frederick Franck

When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the…

— Patrick Stump

In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression.

— Edward de Bono

“Effective content marketing is about mastering the art of storytelling. Facts tell, but stories sell.”

— Bryan Eisenberg

No movie has ever been able to provide a catharsis for the Holocaust, and I suspect none will ever be able to…

— Roger Ebert

I'm a filmmaker. I'm an artist. I've chosen to work in history the way someone might choose to work in still lifes…

— Ken Burns

The record of one's life must needs prove more interesting to him who writes it than to him who reads what has…

— Elizabeth Kenny

I can assure you, that once you get rid of the notion of art, you acquire a great many wonderful new freedoms.

— Jean Tinguely

It is when you adapt that you truly grow. When you grow, you don't let your art become the breeding ground for…

— Shankar Mahadevan

My being in America and being adopted from the Philippines have given me motivation and drive as an artist.

— apl.de.ap

I hate studio. For me, studio is a trap to overproduce and repeat yourself. It is a habit that leads to art…

— Marina Abramovic

Good art is born from knowing yourself deeply: Your art cannot hide how much you have discovered about yourself.

— Zhang Xiaogang

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

— Paul Valery

I have a glam squad, as most on-air people do. I think CNN has some of the best makeup artists, quite frankly.

— Sunny Hostin

The script for 'The Art of Self-Defense,' to be fair, I knew going into it that it was going to be a…

— Riley Stearns