Art Quotes · Page 680

Over the years, I grew up as a person and made mistakes and had a great time and had a baby, kind…

— Tiffany Darwish

His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.

— Victor Hugo

I love natural beauty, and I think it's your best look, but I think makeup as an artist is so transformative.

— Marina and the Diamonds

“The artist is only a vehicle for already has been. Nothing can really be given a presence unless it already exists potentially.”

— Louis Kahn

Really the moment I decided I wanted to do art seriously, I left art school. I wanted to be with people who…

— Aleksandra Mir

Like any art, the creation of self is both natural and seemingly impossible. It requires training as well as magic.

— Holly Near

“We definitely don't exist just for the sake of welcoming death someday; I believe we live for the sake of living on."…

— Reki Kawahara

A contemporary poet has characterized this sense of the personality of art and of the impersonality of science in these words,-'Art is…

— Claude Bernard

Evolving Culture, Reality, as we perceive it, is largely shaped by the artifacts, both material and symbolic, of thought, thought that leads…

— Robert Venosa

Arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, — finding things ready-made for…

— Edward Weston

I guess I'm pretty lucky because in childhood I studied so many martial arts styles and I never stopped researching them, my…

— Donnie Yen

Shall we have recourse to the art of printing? But this has not destroyed property or aristocracy or corporations or paper wealth…

— John Adams

“Some say babies are born with sin, others will say "what the fuck are you talking about".. babies are born as a…

— David Smith

What makes art Christian art? Is it simply Christian artists painting biblical subjects like Jeremiah? Or, by attaching a halo, does that…

— Anonymous

I'd like to be with a guy who's in touch with his feminine side. He should be a lover of art, music…

— Lisa Haydon

I'm noticing a new approach to art making in recent museum and gallery shows. It flickered into focus at the New Museum's…

— Jerry Saltz

“Mientras mas honda la herida, Es mi canto mas hermoso. While more deeper is the wound The more beautiful the art.”

— José Martí

Art seems to me to be above all a state of soul. All souls are sacred, the soul of all the bipeds…

— Marc Chagall

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. [As opposed to the quotation: Poetry is the art of…

— Henri Poincare

Television represents what happens to a medium when the artists have no power and the businessmen are in full, unquestioned control.

— Pauline Kael

As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence…

— Paul Robeson

We're all trying to be artists making our own unique statements. I think the only real way to do that is through…

— Ryan Guzman

“I understand that art is a necessary component of a civilized society, but you cannot just go around shooting people. That's going…

— Kevin Wilson

As artists, it's really important to take time to see what other art is happening and to know what's happening in the…

— Zoe Lister-Jones

Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of…

— F. Sionil Jose

I'm one of those directors who read reviews, even if they're bad, because I started as a film critic as a cinema…

— Luca Guadagnino

The black artist is dangerous. Black art controls the 'Negro's' reality, negates negative influences, and creates positive images.

— Sonia Sanchez

What critics often ask for is the impossible, though this may be a salutary means of extending the borders of art.

— Anthony Burgess

The beauty of art is that it allows you to slow down, and for a moment, things that once seemed unfamiliar become…

— Kehinde Wiley

Some people get lots of pleasure; From books or from music or art; But boys seem to think it's fantastic; To just…

— Giles Andreae

To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete... with Dada I also have in common a certain mistrust…

— Jean Tinguely

I had a bit of a martial arts background from when I was a teenager: I did a bit of karate.

— Joel Edgerton

Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements.

— Marcel Boulestin

“Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. -- Stella Adler”

— Sheana Ochoa

I've always wanted to make a music video with skating and different imagery, something very artistic.

— Johnny Weir

As technology advances at an alarming pace, the place of drawing remains as valid as ever in the creation of art and…

— Prince Charles

Can art change the world? Maybe ... we should change the question: Can art change people's lives?

— JR

Mum and Dad always wanted me to do whatever I was happy doing. I nearly went to art college at 16, but…

— Stephen Graham

You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a…

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Both of my parents were cartoonists - they met in art school - so I was always drawing and I was the…

— Mark Alan Stamaty