Art Quotes · Page 604

“Later it would occur to him that a new life - to be a new man - would require him to take…

— John Galavan

I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but…

— Theodore White

Wild oats will get sown some time, and one of the arts of life is to sow them at the right time.

— Richard Le Gallienne

I think the more you know people and the more you get to know artists, the better you can collaborate.

— Ludwig Goransson

The Winnipeg Art Gallery has a good collection of Inuit art, and most of what I've seen I've seen there or in…

— Neil Farber

You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt... or in front of a piece of graphic design.

— Stefan Sagmeister

Competition is all in numbers; it's a numbers game, but I looked at it like it's a passion, and it's art.

— Will Champlin

I think of my art materials not as junk but as garbage. Manure, actually: it goes from being the waste material of…

— John Chamberlain

It happened very providentially, to the honor of the Christian religion, that it did not take its rise in the dark illiterate…

— Joseph Addison

Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and…

— Kenneth Clark

I went to an art school and you learn very quickly there that you're only as good as your next idea, not…

— Samuel Ervin Beam

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A work of art wastes away and becomes lustreless in surroundings where it has a price but not a value. It radiates…

— Ernst Junger

An artist's creative energy is ephemeral as a flower. It blooms and soon dies. No artist is great forever. Personally, I think…

— Kim Ki-duk

The experience of beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as they say. The artist's relation to the object of beauty,…

— Jonathan Santlofer

“Many modern artists, philosophers, and theologians reject the knowledge of the past. Thus they must continually start over again from ground zero,…

— Gene Edward Veith Jr

I had been a part of dance and drama clubs at school and art gave me a lot of happiness.

— Regina Cassandra

All things are changing; and thou thyself art in continuous mutation and in a manner in continuous destruction and the whole universe…

— Marcus Aurelius

The artist's knowledge of his own creative nature is often unconscious; he pursues his mysterious way of life in a strange innocence.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Art makes you see people as individual, unique human beings. Art, in that way, allows us to see each other in particulate,…

— Dee Rees

“Write something that’s worth fighting over. Because that’s how you change things. That’s how you create art.”

— Jeff Goins

Everyone sort of has that voice of self-doubt in their head, but as an artist, you relinquish your right to have that…

— Ryan McCartan

I'm not an artist that makes singles, I'm an artist that makes albums, and it's a totally different thing.

— Raekwon

Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering.

— Naomi Watts

A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to…

— Robert Smithson

“Artists make art not because they have knowledge they want to "express" but because they want to discover or learn something through…

— Daniel A. Siedell

As an artist, environment has a lot of impact on choices, and these choices can change by changing your location.

— Ashkan Kooshanejad

Most artists create foundations where they put their own work. Here I'm not putting my own work. I'm just creating the chambers.

— Marina Abramovic

Photographers are always voyeuristic, and they do sort of live vicariously. I think every artist does.

— Patricia Bosworth

“A boy in the schoolyard handing out the very same love-letter to a bunch of girls. This is what I think of…

— AtheARTIST

I majored in art history. But I took theater classes, and every semester I was in college productions.

— Lucy DeVito

I feel like artists, as much as we'd like to think we're communal, are pretty much loners.

— Andrew Sean Greer

Artistic mediums go through phases where progress happens really rapidly, and then other moments where it slows down.

— Doug Liman

I'm kind of still down with Virg Woolf on this one: "women must kill the aesthetic ideal through which they themselves have…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

Do not set out to make Mexican art, or American, Chinese, or Russian art. Think in terms of universality.

— Rufino Tamayo

I've come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs.

— Fred Tomaselli

We recommend for the training of teachers not only a considerable artistic education in general but special attention to the art of…

— Maria Montessori

“[P]art of being who you are has to do with feeling your feelings, which means you'll have a wide range of emotions--not…

— Janet Gonzalez-Mena

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

— William Hazlitt

Music and acting are the same thing: you must understand that art is only the search, not the final form.

— Gary Busey