Art Quotes · Page 687

Acting in different languages doesn't stop you from growing; on the contrary, for an artiste, it helps a lot.

— Abhimanyu Singh

I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects…

— Ian Frazier

“Among seekers of truth, painters perhaps come closest to discovering the secret of the balance of forces of the universe, and hence…

— Jean Renoir

You can't visit readers where you think they are. You have to invite them home to where you are and try to…

— Jo Nesbo

“every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. the sitter is merely the…

— Oscar Wilde

It's like whether you're in a huge movie or you've just recorded an incredible album you've got to do the next thing,…

— Brad Garrett

“Glorious creation, so easy to destroy, yet the palette of possibility somehow prevails.”

— Laurence Overmire

There is a strong feeling in the Middle West that the artist is not pulling his own weight no matter how hard…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Very few people have a natural feeling for painting, and so, of course, they naturally think that painting is an expression of…

— Francis Bacon

“The chances are that, being a woman, young, And pure, with such a pair of large, calm eyes, You write as well...and…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

There are some people who want me and my husband to stay where it is safe and draw a paycheck every week…

— Mary Engelbreit

The range of genre that we is very diverse, which makes for a fun and multi-dimensional show, but creating something that flows,…

— Sarah Burton

The problem with kitsch is that it is all too profound, manipulating deep libidinal and ideological forces, while true art knows how…

— Slavoj Žižek

The artist isn't particularly keen on getting a thing done, as you call it. He gets his pleasure out of doing it,…

— William McFee

I doubted Black-ish , and I'll tell you why. Because it doesn't matter if a writer wrote it for you. He could've…

— Tracee Ellis Ross

At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary…

— William John Wills

Art is only art when you're truly happy with it. Especially with what we went through to do this record.

— Skrillex

As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there.

— Gavin Rossdale

I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.

— Yoko Ono

I'm painting an idea not an ideal. Basically I'm trying to paint a structured painting full of controlled, and therefore potent, emotion.

— Euan Uglow

Now we know that, the way contracts are set up, it's not really made for artists to get rich from selling records…

— Lisa Lopes

I grew up overseas in Indonesia, and my school had a great art, music, and theatre program.

— Angela Kinsey

I've always tried to - when I've been able to - support young artists, no matter what medium.

— Spike Lee

You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art…

— Gustave Flaubert

I tend not to work with a specific person in mind. Art is a matter of statistics. It's not about individuals. It's…

— Maurizio Cattelan

Telling a lie is: An Art for a lover Fault for a little boy an Accomplishment for a bachelor And a Matter…

— Anonymous

People classify things and that's fair enough. But if somebody wants to make something different, that doesn't make them any less of…

— Dizzee Rascal

We makeup artists are a unique bunch of people; we don't have the classic brain, the classic training, but we're creative, so…

— Bobbi Brown

Now this foreknowledge cannot be elicited from spirits; it cannot be obtained inductively from experience, nor by any deductive calculation.

— Sun Tzu

Young people have realised that an artist is in charge of what they're doing - this crazy cynicism that artists were puppets…

— Caroline Polachek

Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches.

— Sigmund Freud

Artists erase reality to a greater or lesser extent, and substitute their own reality - created by their brains, instead.

— Semir Zeki

“Participation in an art, although unrewarded by wealth or fame...is a way to make one's soul grow.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you...

— Lawrence Durrell

I want people to understand that this is a very calibrated image [Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former…

— Kerry James Marshall

Art is the response of the living to life. It is therefore the record left behind by civilization.

— John French Sloan

Bring war material with you from home, but forage on the enemy... use the conquered foe to augment one's own strength.

— Sun Tzu

My parents were very encouraging in having us get into the arts, whereas I have a lot of friends that didn't have…

— Thundercat

When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound.

— Anonymous

I wanted to do dance with the same seriousness as art was done and acknowledged, not with the entertainment factor that is…

— Tino Sehgal