Art Quotes · Page 575

You say I sucked at the Oscars. I was a genius at the Oscars. That was experimental tuxedo sleep art.

— James Franco

The knowledge of the nature of a horse is one of the first foundations of the art if riding it, and every…

— Francois Robichon de La Gueriniere

Richard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time.

— Donatella Versace

We do things the way we do them and we do them unashamedly. It's our art. If you don't like it, that's…

— Jim Root

Sometimes as an artist you don't want to be an entertainer. You want to offend people and inspire them and that's not…

— Lacey Sturm

I think that you can absolutely enjoy your artistic passion without seeking for the cult of celebrity.

— Richard Clayderman

Art forms that appeal to [leftists] tend to focus on ... defeat and despair ... as if there were no hope of…

— Theodore Kaczynski

I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subjectively

— Paula Cole

I've been asked which of the other arts novel-writing is most like, and I have come to believe it is acting. Of…

— Andrew O'Hagan

“Eco's emphasis is a productivist one: his view of sign production, and especially of the mode he calls invention, associating it with…

— Teresa de Lauretis

“I wanted to tell you that art is the most harmless activity of mankind. But I suddenly recalled that art was often…

— Magdalena Abakanowicz

“It has long struck me that people who attempt creative work of any type—scientific, artistic, or otherwise—without feeling any enthusiasm for that…

— Bruce Barnbaum

A lot of time when I'm creating songs, they're in real time. When I'm writing the song, I feel what I'm feeling…

— Jhene Aiko

Elvis might have compromised his musical style a bit towards the end, but that doesn't mean that artists from the rock n'…

— Bonnie Raitt

As artists, when you have people that care about what you do, I think you should care about those people who care…

— Zachary Levi

Like every art form, there are jealousies and angers and competitiveness in magic. But there's camaraderie among magicians, whether you perform it…

— Ricky Jay

I think it's important that your work is in conversation with artists in your community.

— Daveed Diggs

I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.

— Rebecca Miller

What I always longed to do was to be able to paint like I can draw, most artists would tell you that,…

— David Hockney

When I went to college, and I went to art school, I started to realize that Warhol was cool and that pop…

— John Currin

The theatre has built a whole art round the actor, based on the man and his double - the actor and his…

— Jean-Louis Barrault

When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting.

— Fernando Botero

“Everything we do, in art or in life, is the imperfect copy of what we thought of doing.”

— Fernando Pessoa

“This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.”

— James Baldwin

During every really creative act, the artist finds himself homeless. To overcome this state he has to call up his last reserves…

— Asger Jorn

Once, the arts were opera, ballet, classical music, and everything else deemed highbrow.

— Melvyn Bragg

When you're dead weight, in the right position, you win. And in reality, you wouldn't see someone my size kicking seven martial…

— Joan Severance

Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.

— George Henry Lewes

We speak of profane arts; but there are none properly such; every art is holy in itself; it is the son of…

— Esaias Tegner

To be a friend of the weak-that is the artist's point of departure as well as his ultimate goal.

— Osamu Dazai

So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at…

— Phil Lesh

I mean there's no other feeling than when you hear a great hip-hop song. You feel good. If you lose that as…

— Fabolous

I'm a bounce artist, straight born and raised from New Orleans, Louisiana, and I love what I do.

— Big Freedia

I'm not a political artist in any way, but if an idea takes me somewhere or something is emotionally impactful, I find…

— Idris Khan

It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of individual's and society's self-deception.

— Robert Motherwell

The arts significantly boost student achievement, reduce discipline problems, and increase the odds students will go on to graduate from college.

— Arne Duncan

“An artist can’t choose between right and wrong. It can only be his art or death. Nothing else matters. Not family, not…

— MURIELLE CYR

Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator.

— Olivia Newton-John

Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I listen to a lot of hip hop artists, and I think hip hop and poetry go hand in hand. The 'Def…

— J. J. Redick