Art Quotes · Page 705

Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing.

— Paul Westerberg

Poetry lies at the centre of the literary experience because it is the form that most clearly asserts the specificity of literature.

— Jonathan Culler

Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Art is the free expression of the artist and they tried to stop us from expressing ourselves, our art.

— Marilyn Manson

Art does the same things dreams do. We have a hunger for dreams and art fulfills that hunger. So much of real…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Today, each artist must undertake to invent himself, a lifelong act of creation that constitutes the essential content of the artist's work.

— Harold Rosenberg

I'm a massive fan of Brit Art in general and Damien Hirst in particular. I think he's an absolute genius and should…

— David Morrissey

I'm in between an installation artist, video artist and photographer. And when you work with nude bodies, you're immediately called a pornographer…

— Spencer Tunick

There is no greater symbol of the artistic spirit of Scotland than the Mackintosh building. But more than that it is a…

— Peter Capaldi

“The world, moment by ordinary or agonizing moment, lies chock-full with its own clarifications and rewards. That such rewards most often go…

— Robert Wrigley

I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing…

— Paloma Faith

“NO MUSE IS GOOD MUSE To be an Artist you need talent, as well as a wife who washes the socks and…

— Rochelle Distelheim

We must not show to all and sundry the secrets of the waters flowing in ocean and river, or the devices that…

— Filippo Brunelleschi

People just don't understand the art form of what we do. It's a mental and physical grind. You can't be a dolt…

— Seth Rollins

The concept of a 'job' is pretty recent. If you go back a few hundred years, everyone was either a slave or…

— Steve Jurvetson

I often find myself privately stewing about much British art, thinking that except for their tremendous gardens, that the English are not…

— Jerry Saltz

Women and egoistic artists entertain a feeling towards science that is something composed of envy and sentimentality.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

For the nature of a women is closely allied to art. [Ger., Denn das Naturell der Frauen Ist so nah mit Kunst…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art awakens a sense of real by establishing an intimate relationship between our inner being and the universe at large, bringing us…

— Rabindranath Tagore

We need to understand that every time an elementary teacher captures the imagination of a child through the arts or music of…

— Richard Riley

To master a lesson or any art there is no short cut. One has to work hard, practise for hours, keep on…

— Vikrant Parsai

We're both very passionate about the arts. Mom, of course with her arts background. I have a theater background and work with…

— Emma Walton Hamilton

Art is not what most people think it to be. It is not an occupation of one-railed people.

— Gutzon Borglum

The concealment of art by the actor is as great a mark of genius as it is in the painter.

— Francois Delsarte

God made poor woman with no heart, But gave her skill, and tact, and art, And so she lives, and plays her…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I sure would like to hear from those British and Gurkha knife artists I took into Burma.

— Jackie Coogan

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and…

— Arthur Balfour

I promised to finish school, so I'll figure it out I guess. Besides, I'm on a special school for musicians and artists,…

— Martin Garrix

Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.

— George Henry Lewes

At the end of the day, filmmaking is a sheer act of creative will. You have to be prepared to stick with…

— Nicholas Ozeki

At the core, every artist, no matter what his subject matter happens to be, has to be someone doing the looking. I…

— Kehinde Wiley

Her head is full of bubbles, her nose is petite, she looks like she never gets nothing to eat.

— Frank Zappa

“Art has the power to render sorrow beautiful, make loneliness a shared experience, and transform despair into hope.”

— Brené Brown

As hip-hop artists, you have to take the music seriously, not just as a way to get rich.

— Xzibit

There's a kind of perverseness or betrayal in that idea that art is somehow superior to life. Or that it's more important…

— Matthew Specktor

There are clearly many Egyptian free-thinkers and intellectuals - lots of wonderful Egyptian artists and architects and scientists.

— Richard Engel

“(Query: Is it possible to cultivate the art of conversation when living in the country all the year round?)”

— E.M. Delafield

It's not necessarily all about commercial success. It's about inspiring in the world and having what you do seen as art and…

— Chris March

There was a long time where I was an 'artist' in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I…

— Zach Galifianakis

I understand abstract art as an attempt to feed imagination with a world built through the basic sensations of the eyes.

— Jean Helion