Art Quotes · Page 644

Acting is not rocket science, but it is an art form. What you are doing is illuminating humanity. Or not.

— Viola Davis

The visual arts must communicate to the human spirit, forcing individuals to reflect on themselves and their existence beyond their own self-interest.

— Dean Mitchell

Besides the mathematical arts there is no infallible knowledge, except that it be borrowed from them.

— Robert Recorde

Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual.

— Aldous Huxley

“And as this creation itself is poetry, so its creators were poets; and language was the instrument of their art”

— Percy Shelley

Magic has both feet planted in cheap vaudeville and childish posturing; in dishonesty and therefore not in art.

— Derren Brown

It used to be that we in films were the lowest form of art. Now we have something to look down on.…

— Billy Wilder

Why is love like art ? U see the flaws but the flaws are what makes it beautiful but some just see…

— Miranda

What I would like to write is a book about nothing, a book without exterior attachments, which would be held together by…

— Gustave Flaubert

The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. It is a disease which arises from men no having sufficient power of…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The thing about acting that's unlike any other art form is that it's collaborative; directing and acting are a collaboration, and your…

— Maya Hawke

“God takes the broken material of our lives and re-fashions it into something beautiful. Salvation is God’s gift to help us lead…

— Lance Colkmire

We talk about the vulnerability involved in sharing our work publicly. I don't think we talk enough about the real vulnerability involved…

— John Paul Caponigro

Quotes about Life Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers,…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The best thing I ever learned from my dad was he knew he wasn't the best of singers, but he always knew…

— Dean Norris

My problem with political art is not that it's bad art necessarily, but that it is terrible politics. We're talking about a…

— Jonathan Santlofer

God must love art because most of the Bible is expressed in the form of story or poetry.

— Philip Yancey

Instead of speaking of men versus women, we should speak about artists rising at a worldwide level.

— Karol G

any mystery writer is both magician and moralist ... two species of artist in short supply.

— Sue Grafton

“Uncertainty is the essential, inevitable and all-pervasive companion to your desire to make art. And tolerance for uncertainty is the prerequisite to…

— David Bayles

I must say that kids make it a lot harder process, especially having to live the life of a traveling recording artist.

— Guy Sebastian

All art is an individual's expression of a culture. Cultures differ, so art looks different.

— Henry Glassie

There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the…

— Anais Nin

Creating music and just having someone's art directs the way you think about life subconsciously.

— Vince Staples

I think these days, as an artist, you have to be slightly entrepreneurial. ...Nobody really sells records anymore.

— Boy George

When you start putting a higher value on works of art than people, you’re forfeiting your humanity.

— Woody Allen

I'm from Brooklyn, New York. I'm a hip-hop artist. That's just that. You're going to have to accept me or just not…

— Astro

I am a very spread out type of director as I just love working in all of these different worlds; I go…

— Jonas Akerlund

I am an actor. I am an artist. I am a daughter. I am a sister. I am a partner. I have…

— Sasha Grey

Words matter, and the right words matter most of all. In the end they're all that remain of us.

— John Birmingham

I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.

— Donald Judd

All good art is in the nature of a letter written to amuse a sick friend. Too much art, particularly in our…

— W. H. Auden

There is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via…

— Ingmar Bergman

“When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss Art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss Money”

— Oscar Wilde

Each painting has its own way of evolving. When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself.

— William Baziotes

I'm coming to the artist with a smash. I'm like, "Yo this is a smash. We've got to go in."

— DJ Khaled

With everything that Tae and I do, we want to make sure it's true and honest to who we are as people…

— Maddie Marlow

I love art because I feel that it's evidence of the great shared universal power. I like art that feels real, that…

— Ottessa Moshfegh

I wouldn't know any other way to live except to be an artist. I'm not very good at anything else.

— Fred Tomaselli

Sometimes an artist can be good and they don't get the response or the attention that they deserve.

— Koffee