Art Quotes · Page 606

A lot of people are intimated by art, but it's something to be revered beyond criticism.

— Hannah Gadsby

“Art is the antidote that can call us back from the edge of numbness, restoring the ability to feel for another.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Be kind to dragonswans, for thou art gorgeous when naked and taste good with cool whip. (Channon)”

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Every artist has his or her struggle to work out in their work. The more powerful the struggle, the more persuasive the…

— Philip Schultz

I'm convinced that imagination is at the heart of everything we do - in art, science, even astrophysics and higher mathematics. Imagination…

— Lloyd Alexander

“producing technology requires intuition and creativity, and how producing something artistic takes real discipline. Jobs”

— Walter Isaacson

There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

How should an artist begin to do his work as an artist? I would insist that he begin his work as an…

— Francis Schaeffer

“It’s up to the writer and the artist to give voice to these people. There are two impulses in art: one is…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Be careful what you wish for, I guess. I believe - this will sound bloated, but I believe it - that true…

— Porochista Khakpour

I'm a painter, that's where I started out, at four years old, that was my first love as far as expression. So,…

— Diane Lane

I don't think of myself as a rebellious artist, a lot of people have said that about me because I came from…

— Danny Fox

“I don't do martial arts for trophies or for fun. I'm a fighter, and I train to win any fight I'm in.…

— Jonathan Maberry

He [Michael Jackson] would choose specific moments. They were art history books that I prefer. They were paintings that he prefers. It's…

— Kehinde Wiley

In my life I have had to work through problems of stigmatization and prejudice. When I discovered the power of the arts…

— Reza Abdoh

Cleveland has a very bad reputation, but there's a lot of stuff that's left over from when there were very wealthy people…

— Harvey Pekar

“...I've marked our sacred place not with stones - I've put it my art to keep it safe...”

— John Geddes

I figure I can be artistic, but I work like a blue-collar person, too, and I'm serious about that.

— Joe R. Lansdale

Zion, thou art doubtless anxious for news of thy captives; they ask after thee, they who are the remainder of thy flock.

— Judah Halevi

Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.

— Tom Clancy

Art is beyond the enmity! That's why you can always love the art of your enemy, even though you hate him!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Rome used to have good public art in ancient times. There is nothing like West of Rome in Italy.

— Emi Fontana

Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.

— E. L. Doctorow

Michael Jackson was a Gemini. Kanye, Lauryn Hill, a lot of people that are amazing artists are Geminis.

— Jorja Smith

An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but…

— W. Somerset Maugham

I have always wanted to have a cultural centre where people can sort of have a community of artists and like-minded people…

— Kiran Rao

“Write to me your most perfect epitaph, or I shall compare a poet to a lecturer. Thou art more Spartan than a…

— Scott Jonathan Nixon

In the world of art, as in the whole of creation, freedom and progress are the main objectives.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

An artist must believe in himself. Your belief is contagious. Others may say he is vain, but they are affected.

— Tennessee Williams

I'm definitely one of them artists that loves putting the track on and having fun with it, but in my own way.

— Rakim

As an artist, you can work to make money, or you can be an artist who thinks about their legacy.

— Anthony Ramos

The observer must learn to look at the picture as a graphic representation of a mood and not as a representation of…

— Wassily Kandinsky

I think there's one thing which distinguishes our art - we don't consider. We don't think. We write a little verse because…

— Howard Nemerov

I don't want to make plop art — sculpture that just gets plopped down in places. I wouldn't want to litter every…

— Rachel Whiteread

If you're someone who's making film or TV or music, or any kind of art form now, there's a billion outlets and…

— Andy Samberg

I'm just kind of really interested in athletes as artists of a pretty serious variety and people who devote themselves to what…

— Chad Harbach

I personally found 'Avatar' - the blue people, to me, looked like painted art from the seventies. It didn't have the realism…

— John Hillcoat

The measure of artistic merit is the length to which a writer is willing to go in following his own compulsions.

— John Updike

There is more real devotional feeling summoned from the temple of the mind by great music than by any sermon ever delivered.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Cinema and the arts invite viewers to focus on a story and, in doing so, peel away its layers and peer into…

— Forest Whitaker