Art Quotes · Page 614

When you save book reports, art projects and put them in a scrapbook, it shows a kid you care and you are…

— Nancy O'Dell

“The art of yoga has nothing to do with bending and twisting your body, and everything to do with unbending your mind.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I honestly don't know how you live without having a cat inside your house. It's like having a little living piece of…

— Hank Green

There were periods when the art market got overheated, but there is no reason it should appreciate dramatically.

— Eli Broad

I think singing is such an important and incredible art form and it is quite undervalued at times.

— Katie Melua

Didn't you know I'm going to be the greatest, most entertaining author and artist in the world? Well, don't feel badly, I…

— Sylvia Plath

As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward.

— Vincent Van Gogh

I'm the Latin artist who has been the most successful in history at representing the Latin culture. The stylings of my words…

— Julio Iglesias

“If you have walked into a museum recently - whether you did so to attend an art exhibition or to escape from…

— Lemony Snicket

The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the…

— Pablo Picasso

“And criticism - what place is that to have in our culture? Well, I think that the first duty of an art…

— Oscar Wilde

I have dabbled in martial arts all my life, since I was 7, maybe - tae kwon do, capoeira, Muay Thai. It's…

— Lupita Nyong'o

Warhol and other Pop artists had brought the art religion of art for art's sake to an end. If art was only…

— Dan Graham

I think fashion is art. The dialogue I am concerned with as an artist has more to do with the art and…

— Paul Rusconi

“Everything could undergo conversion except the artists. How can you convert disorganizers of past and present order, the chronic dissenters, those dispossessed…

— Anaïs Nin

“A work of art doesn’t need to provide complete answers in order to succeed. It needs only to excite us into asking…

— Christopher Bram

I've lost much of my heart and the spark or fire that once 'created,' or produced, the art of fiction.

— Rick Bass

I believe that art has been a vehicle for me that's been about enlightenment and expanding my own parameters, to give me…

— Jeff Koons

“You know one thing that Mr. Powell taught me? He taught me that sometimes, art can make you forget everything else all…

— Gary D. Schmidt

“What is aesthetically beautiful, should not be able to be understood fully: by its mysterious character it should leave behind a vaguely…

— Nicola Lecca

I have the dream to continue being in an art context, but also be able to continue doing stuff in television on…

— Kalup Linzy

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

— John Steinbeck

To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art.

— David Mamet

I am all for high art but I owe it to myself to be clever about it and do commercial things too.

— Dervla Kirwan

My art has nothing to do with servicing collectors, it's for living, for turning on with.

— David Lee

For an artiste like me, it was very difficult to focus on studies with a beautiful campus around me.

— Mohit Chauhan

All this angst, all this stuff we all feel, is just tied to making art. It's so ancient.

— Paul Beatty

Everything about art has become problematic; its inner life, its relation to society, even its right to exist.

— Theodor Adorno

Once you are trained in the international martial arts, your body and mind become toned permanently. You can take on any action…

— Koena Mitra

Paul Gray - he believed in my art, and I believed in his music. Together, we decided to change the world, and…

— Shawn Crahan

In my sculpture, it's not an image I am seeking, it's not an idea. My goal is to re-live a past emotion.…

— Louise Bourgeois

A country that has few museums is both materially poor and spiritually poor...Museums, like theaters and libraries, are a means to freedom.

— Wendy Beckett

Art gives to you a new conception of reality, opens your mind, opens your heart, opens your desire of action.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

The painter goes through states of fullness and evaluation. That is the whole secret of art.

— Pablo Picasso

Seeing our kids' beautiful, colorful art hung on the wall brightens my heart and our home.

— Tiffani Thiessen

Rose! Thou art the sweetest flower that ever drank the amber shower: Even the Gods, who walk the sky, are amourous of…

— Thomas More

There is also a strong following among the urbanites on the East Coast when it comes to martial arts films.

— Donnie Yen

Many of the artists are not pretending to have an objective point of view. They're revealing the subjectivity.

— Massimiliano Gioni

Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could…

— Kathryn Bigelow

I have always wanted to branch off and become a fashion guru. I want to share my artistic views with the world.

— A. J. McLean