Art Quotes · Page 676

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

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

— Kathryn Bigelow

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

— Massimiliano Gioni

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

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

— Tiffani Thiessen

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

“Our days weave together the simple pleasures of daily life, which we should never take for granted, and the higher pleasures of…

— A. S. Byatt

From the 9th to the 15th centuries, the area which is now modern Spain was home to the greatest peaceful agglomeration of…

— Maya Beiser

I've learned, like with anything else, business is only as good as your connections and your resources. And some of the resources…

— Daymond John

“Seasonality (eating the best at its peak) and seasoning (the art of choosing and combining flavors to complement food) are vital for…

— Mireille Guiliano

“To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines,…

— Leo Tolstoy

“It is probably better that the world knows only the result, not the conditions under which it was achieved; because knowledge of…

— Thomas Mann

Music is the art of all the invisible things that are real. Art, emotion, spiritual essence, consciousness - these things are hard…

— Wynton Marsalis

I swear... to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when…

— Hippocrates

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

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

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

— Koena Mitra

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

— Theodor Adorno

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

— Paul Beatty

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

— Mohit Chauhan

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

— David Lee

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

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

— John Steinbeck

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

— Kalup Linzy

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

— Nicola Lecca

“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

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

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

— Rick Bass

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

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

— Vincent Van Gogh

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

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

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

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

— Abhijit Naskar

Being a graduate student is no fun and is hard, but I'm sticking with it. I love making art.

— Nell Irvin Painter