Art Quotes · Page 572

At first, I didn't want to do unicorns. The artist in me said no. Then I thought, 'Wait a minute: this is…

— Lisa Frank

I've only covered a few songs because I feel that if you're not going to go beyond the original artist in some…

— Dawn Angelique

Swavey is a musical genre that I came up with to describe artists who are too talented to stay in a box…

— Tory Lanez

I also think that [political turmoil] gives artists something, a way of kind of processing.

— Morgan Parker

But I don't think Art's an Einstein - he likes tugging ears, biting people and burping too much to be a genius.

— Darren Shan

When it came to the stylish and graceful art of ballroom dancing, my dad was a king of the clubs, a prowling…

— Bruno Tonioli

When you are born gay, you are born into a rich culture of politics, music, and art, but you are also a…

— Justin Tranter

I hope always to earn my living by my art without having ever deviated by even a hair's breadth from my principles...…

— Gustave Courbet

I always look at magazines and wind up standing there like, "Whose house looks like this? Who lives this way?" I never…

— Jim Walrod

“STAY AN ORIGINAL WORK OF ART In this short lifetime, Why not be -- True to your own voice, Your own story,…

— Suzy Kassem

A lot of artists think that to be current, you have to follow what's out there and do something that's so unlike…

— Gza

“In the past an artist produced things that were necessary socially; they were instruments, albeit of a special kind, that helped the…

— Stanisław Lem

You really just love those opportunities and being a competitior in those situations [when running against the best]. I think that's when…

— Terrence Trammell

“People are always relying on another, i always feel more comfortable alone. Art knows my pain, its not just a desire to…

— Nikki Rowe

As an artist, even if you are putting out something really dark and disturbing, that's good because it's opening a discussion. Always…

— Shaun Tan

“If [modern artists] hadn’t lobbied for endless subsidies, they would have starved or been forced to go to work long ago. Because…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

I mean, people listen to music, and they like that, but I think in England, a lot of people don't like contemporary…

— Damien Hirst

A Christian should use these arts to the glory of God, not just as tracts, mind you, but as things of beauty…

— Francis Schaeffer

I've always been a believer in the power of art - and music in particular - to inspire change.

— Gavin Creel

A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything.

— Val Kilmer

I think when you work with really wonderful directors who have a really strong vision, it lets you as an artist set…

— Sarah Gadon

[Sundance] still feels like an incredible place for championing emerging voices and art.

— Elijah Wood

I've never been interested in, much in the politics of the art world, it doesn't interest me.

— David Hockney

It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.

— Dave Barry

I've always believed that as an artist, as a writer, you need a lot of contact with other people to make your…

— N. K. Jemisin

I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not.

— Nicolas Berggruen

Art is what gets communicated at a live show, which is why live shows are so amazing. To communicate in a different…

— Alex Scally

I am from a family of artists. Here I am, making a living in the arts. It has not been a rebellion.…

— Kurt Vonnegut

What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have.

— Rudolf Nureyev

Whether or not anyone could have done it is not what's important. What is important is whether or not anyone would have…

— Derek R. Audette

There are directors who desire to be artistic. It is pathetic to compare the seriousness of their aim with the absurdity of…

— W. Somerset Maugham

I went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, which was in Carnegie Hall, which itself was exciting - just to walk…

— Gena Rowlands

I'm the first British artist to have two successive number ones on his own independent label.

— Dizzee Rascal

I'm not as much a history person as an art person, but I mean, you can read history through art.

— Kristen Wiig

When I was 23, I moved to Australia to be with this 43-year-old con artist I fell in love with.

— Natasha Leggero

“A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is...like a life without pictures.”

— Stephen King

“Ai is not a threat to artists; it's merely a reflection of your genius, a machine's attempt to copy your mastery. —…

— Raigon Stanley

“What was any art but an effort to make a sheath, a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining,…

— Willa Cather

As I watched him on the stage, my hands were clinched in fists of rage. No angel born in hell, could break…

— Don McLean

When you do Jiu Jitsu, you won't look at a bigger guy and say 'oh no', you'll look and say 'how interesting!'

— Rener Gracie