Art Quotes · Page 615

Art should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else.…

— Ai Weiwei

He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.

— Anton Chekhov

I am trained in marshal arts and I exercise for almost one and a half hours daily, five days a week.

— Pooja Batra

Hollywood, America's greatest modern contribution to world culture, is a business, a religion, an art form, and a state of mind.

— Camille Paglia

One of my favorite things is producing other artists because, in many ways, it's a lot more freeing than working on your…

— St. Lucia

Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word.

— Eugenio Montale

Thou art an eagle, thou doest belong to the sky and not to the earth, stretch forth thy wings and fly.

— Paul H. Dunn

Study what thou art Whereof thou art a part What thou knowest of this art This is really what thou art. All…

— William Drummond

Both in thy private sessions, and the universal assizes, thou shalt be sure of the same Judge, the same jury, the same…

— Thomas Adams

“If I claim full justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing—a thing beyond myself. Crime is common.…

— Sir Arthur Conan Doye

David Corbett's The Art of Character offers a deep inquiry into the creation of character for the novice writer, with valuable nuggets…

— Jacqueline Winspear

The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sade. The…

— Albert Camus

Arts, crafts and sciences uplift the world of being, and are conducive to its exaltation. Knowledge is as wings to man's life,…

— Bahá'u'lláh

“I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that…

— Henry David Thoreau

I think for anyone who follows the 'artistic life,' a certain amount of selfishness and self-involvement is part of the package. You're…

— David Chase

All art is based on nonconformity ... Without nonconformity we would have had no Bill of Rights or Magna Carta, no public…

— Ben Shahn

Art Education is as important for a realist artist as an Alphabet is to learn a language.

— Igor Babailov

Forms in art arise from the impact of idea upon material... so that thinking and belief and attitudes may endure as actual…

— Ben Shahn

The internet has really messed everyone up. It has its ups and downs, but for a music artist it's a killer.

— Ginuwine

A thousand painters can paint for a 1,000 years, but can't make a work of art as beautiful as you.

— Anonymous

There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.

— Emile Zola

Negroes at last were on Broadway, and there to stay. We were artists and we were going a long way.

— Will M Cook

Take a seat, I'm undefeated in this art of war. Rest in peace to the pussies, it's time to Scar some more.

— Rick Ross

The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.

— Steven Pressfield

I play drums and guitar, I snowboard, I do martial arts and acrobatics. I go to the movies every Friday.

— Cameron Monaghan

I think the job of art and drama is to hold a mirror up to those things and say, 'What do you…

— Jessie Mueller

The art of an actress is sublimated sexuality. But off the stage the fire must be able to reconvert the steam into…

— Karl Kraus

The thought that my life could end at any moment frees me to fully appreciate the beauty and art and horror of…

— Hannibal

When people try questioning my artistry or what it is that I do, it's because it doesn't look like everybody else's art.

— The-Dream

The message from the hedge-leaves, Heed it, whoso thou art; Under lowly eaves Lives the happy heart.

— John Vance Cheney

Well, is it pornography or is it art? Well as far as I'm concerned, the Mona Lisa is art.

— Shaun Micallef

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.

— Damien Hirst

When I conjure these memories, they are of the present to me, because after all, the artist is a kind of enchanter…

— Romare Bearden

All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet -- it's your kid. It grows…

— Joss Whedon

“God made man mortal and to console this transitory creature He gave him an immortal toy called Art!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“what makes a work of fiction safe from larvae and rust is not its social importance but its art, only its art”

— Vladimir Nabokov

A photographic portrait needs more collaboration between sitter and artist than a painted portrait.

— Alvin Langdon Coburn

An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.

— Robert Henri

When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the…

— Jonathan Lethem

I wasn't trying to turn graffiti into an art form. I just wanted to learn about art. I wanted to learn this…

— Barry McGee