Art Quotes · Page 641

I have learned that what I have not drawn I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary…

— Anonymous

Qawaali is the art, that's in my soul. It's the ground. Everything else is a passing season - wind, rain, sunshine.

— Rahat Fateh Ali Khan

I wrote my novel 'Bitter Greens' as the creative component of a Doctorate of Creative Arts and am now looking at the…

— Kate Forsyth

I'm liver than Jay, Davy, and Kathy and Regis, been on more MTV shows than Butthead and Beavis.

— Nelly

The real art is in the street, is making the artwork, and for that you have to involve people. The action is…

— JR

Once again, I think there is little art being done that really owns up to such intense possibilities.

— Peter Sotos

I listen to a lot of music. But I definitely haven't looked at an artist and like thought I want to have…

— Melanie Martinez

Throughout my life I have taken detours in acting and writing, but art remains my abiding passion.

— Gloria Vanderbilt

“Hence a certain tension between religion and society marks the higher stages of every civilization. Religion begins by offering magical aid to…

— Will Durant

Going to the Huntington gardens and libraries was radically important for me. They have one of the best collections of 18th- and…

— Kehinde Wiley

We already have so much abundance. We truly do. We need not search too far. It is within. The reason we fail…

— John Welwood

Most people just want to be part of the world, they want to live, love, and enjoy themselves - to take part…

— Paul Auster

Chess is all about getting the king into check, you see. It's about killing the father. I would say that chess has…

— Arturo Pérez-Reverte

The relationship between government and art must necessarily be a delicate one. It would not be appropriate for the government to try…

— Jimmy Carter

I am honored I have performed 'Quizas Quizas Quizas' with Jennifer Lopez, an eclectic artist who thanks to the charismatic power of…

— Andrea Bocelli

DJ-ing itself is not just about playing songs. The art of DJ-ing is presenting new songs to the crowd that they haven't…

— TyDi

“If you are an artist who pays too much attention this system and its politics, you are in deep trouble because you…

— John Seed

When I put that first Vine out, I was just doing it for fun; there was no wanting to become an artist.

— Shawn Mendes

I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.

— Al Pacino

“A writer needs a partner who can act as fuel to his artistic mind, yet has the great ability to sober him…

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of…

— Mary Schmich

Music and art are two very different activities for me. However, the use of imagery links them, and invention is important for…

— Ed Askew

As artists, we have the luxury of experimenting with extra crazy things, but I feel like my aesthetic is very street-style and…

— Justine Skye

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness…

— Anonymous

What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting.

— Vincent Van Gogh

I was kind of freaked out by the art world in the 1980s. Just the money thing. All the competition over artists.

— Kim Gordon

I think the British government's cutting back of arts funding is such a crime. I bet it will happen in Denmark soon,…

— Henrik Vibskov

As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure.

— John Dewey

I love making up visual works of art in language. I get to be an artist without actually being an artist in…

— Siri Hustvedt

Spies are a most important element in water, because on them depends an army's ability to move.

— Sun Tzu

You've gotta be careful because art is really important to most people, and you wanna respect that as much as possible. So…

— Robert Trujillo

All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.

— Ansel Adams

I find being an adult very difficult. Being an adult artist, Asian American, incredibly difficult. Or trying, anyway.

— Min Jin Lee

I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.

— Bill Griffith

YOU are part of a creation, born from the same artist that created sunsets & rainbows. Don't ever allow yourself 2 think…

— Nishan Panwar

Independent artists and labels have always been the trend setters in music and the music business.

— Shawn Fanning

Have little care that Life is brief, And less that Art is long. Success is in the silences Though Fame is in…

— Bliss Carman

Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.

— John Cage

A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.

— Aberjhani

Good artists exist in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

— Dave Eggers