Art Quotes · Page 582

There is but one art, to omit! Oh, if I knew how to omit I would ask no other knowledge. A man…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion,…

— Gustave Flaubert

Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's…

— Phil Ochs

“Art is solving problems that cannot be formulated before they have been solved. The shaping of the question is part of the…

— Piet Hein

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state…

— Anonymous

I wouldn't be where I am without people giving me an opportunity and a platform. I feel like that's what I should…

— Jimmie Allen

“Chetta believed that most people who worked in the arts were high-functioning schizophrenics, and she was no different.”

— Stephen King

The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by…

— Ralph Ellison

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand…

— Henry Adams

But you go to a great school, not for knowledge so much as for arts and habits; for the habit of attention,…

— William Johnson Cory

I'm much more concerned about what artists think. But as you get older you tend to get much more isolated; you're not…

— Brice Marden

No one would want to pay a penny for an empty canvas by me. But it would be quite another if the…

— Semir Zeki

It is comforting that travel should have an architecture, and that it is possible to contribute a few stones to it, although…

— Claudio Magris

“I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it…

— Eddie Vedder

I thought I was going to be a ballet dancer for awhile there. I had a good teacher at Interlochen, this arts'…

— Benjamin Walker

Even after seeing so much bad art in the last few years, it still seems possible that one can be led to…

— Diego Cortez

I really don't know what's good or bad art because all the art I like people tell me is tasteless.

— Ed Sheeran

“The toughest part has been getting used to being known. I've always been the guy in the background, being the actual artist…

— Ne-Yo

It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the…

— Lukas Foss

Does the thoughtful man suppose that...the present experiment in civilization is the last world we will see?

— George Santayana

In taste and imagination, in the graces of style, in the arts of persuasion, in the magnificence of public works, the ancients…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Yeah, every artist I think should look at themselves as a brand because the more appealing your brand is, the more money…

— Lil Jon

“I want to make a difference, I want to make a change, inspire a revolution, to create, reinvent, and rearrange.”

— Meagan Earls

I am not a food critic. Or a chef. Or even a professional writer. What I am schooled in the art of,…

— Jewel Staite

I don't think I've ever made any conscious decision to be a comic artist, but to me there's something quite anarchic about…

— David Shrigley

Art grabs people by their eyeballs, it seduces them ... art is a means to an end rather than simply an end…

— Eric Drooker

Without artists, the order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish.

— Guillaume Apollinaire

I was attracted to things that combined art and science equally. I've always been equally interested in art design, science and engineering.

— Bran Ferren

“Heretics are the only [bitter] remedy against the entropy of human thought. ("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy")”

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will…

— Van Cliburn

Art is based on a strong sentiment of religion,--on a profound and mighty earnestness; hence it is so prone to co-operate with…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.

— Josef Albers

One of the things I understood from early on was that art was a symbol of systemic inequity.

— Gloria Steinem

The artistic side of a person is never narcissist; it's always empathic. It's always kind and compassionate.

— Jordan Gavaris

There is no greatness without passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a…

— Tony Robbins

Cicero smiled at us. 'The art of life is to deal with problems as they arise, rather than destory one's spirit by…

— Robert Harris

My record label is treating me like I'm a new artist, which is exciting after all this time.

— Rosanne Cash

Some people say I make hip-hop. Others see me as doing EDM. Some people might look at me as a trap artist,…

— Kaytranada

When I see beautiful clothes, I want to keep them, preserve them... Clothes, like architecture and art, reflect an era.

— Azzedine Alaia

I consider chess an art, and accept all those responsibilities which art places upon its devotees.

— Alexander Alekhine