Art Quotes · Page 624

Creative people who have made their seemingly most self-indulgent artistic whims into a career.

— Steve Purcell

Artists reproduce themselves or each other, with wearisome iteration. But criticism is always moving on, and the critic is always developing.

— Oscar Wilde

I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.

— Lukas Foss

I understand that everything is dictated by market value. But cinema is also an art. It saddens me to see great talent…

— Paresh Rawal

“I may have stumbled and stammered at your unexpected push, but the breeze anchored me and I learnt the art of survival”

— Vijaya Gowrisankar

When you take technology and mix it with art, you always come up with something innovative.

— Robert Rodriguez

I dare affirm that any artist... who has nothing singular, eccentric, or at least reputed to be so, in his person, will…

— Michelangelo

I know there are some labels that put out music for art's sake, but I don't know which ones.

— Anonymous

Art is not some inessential frippery - it is the nation's means of intelligently regarding itself. To cripple or stigmatize the arts…

— George Saunders

I feel a lot of cities are like, you go and you are trying to do your art, and there are so…

— Valerie June

There are certain artists that get into the little circle in hip-hop, and everybody is talking about them, and they are buzzing.…

— Logic

“You're a talented artist," he began, and I burst into more tears. He jumped up, agitated, and tried to give the book…

— Vicki Keire

“Despite dreaming about making a living through his art, the real potential of becoming An Artist Nobody Likes was far, far scarier…

— Mark Manson

I don't agree with most forms of censorship, and I especially don't agree with the idea that one needs to be from…

— Shepard Fairey

Crumb was such an influence on me. He's such a visionary, such a great artist, that he so shaped my artistic sensibilities…

— Terry Zwigoff

“mismatched collection of flea market leftovers. The walls, though, were exhibiting an interesting collection of oils and pastels by local artists, all…

— John Grisham

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

— Annaleigh Ashford

Self-knowledge is the basis of jeet kune do because it is effective not only for the individual's martial art but also for…

— Bruce Lee

To make great art, you had to expose your soul, and some things should be left safely in the dark.

— Patricia Briggs

“Jake and Chris talk through art and discover they have so much in common it's amazing. Like, They Could Be Boyfriends If…

— Courtney Summers

“The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every…

— Anonymous

I am in no sense of the word a great artist, not even a great animator; I have always had men working…

— Walt Disney

Charles Burchfield was exceptional. As such an accomplished artist, he had limited previous association with academia and teaching.

— Paul Smith

There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not…

— Jerome Bruner

I treat clothing or a piece of jewelry like it was a piece of art, even though people who collect clothes get…

— Daphne Guinness

Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

— Walter Isaacson

We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers.

— Damian Loeb

To get such beauty from something that has been produced from the artist's own imagination appealed to me enormously.

— Solomon R. Guggenheim

I've never done just one thing, I've never been able to. I just like to know all pieces of the puzzle because…

— Jerrika Hinton

Just as there is no substitute for original works of art, there is no substitute for the world of direct sensual experience.

— Paul Mellon

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

One training session won't change anything, but 10 will. Perseverance and straight up training.

— Mauricio Rua

Acting, I found, was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?

— Elia Kazan

To win BBC's Sound of 2018 was a huge honour. A lot of my favourite artists have won it before.

— Sigrid

The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are…

— Francois Fenelon

The black man in Africa had mastered the arts and sciences. He knew the course of the stars in the universe before…

— Malcolm X

Life's a canvas you're an artist, Paint a picture of a garden then go and marvel at the harvest you created from…

— Anonymous

Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.

— Andrew Eldritch

The most vigilant self-criticism of course is necessary, but the time comes when the artist must tell himself he is good or…

— Gerald Moor

Please do not strain yourself, Miss Doyle. I won't have my girls going cross-eyed in the name of art.

— Libba Bray