Art Quotes · Page 707

A landscape clean and crisp in form and colour, rich in inspiration is all that an artist could wish for, begging to…

— Franklin Carmichael

The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it…

— Stanley Kubrick

“[Poetry] was a form of incantation, a means of welding the world inside his head to the one that surrounded him, words…

— Elizabeth Hand

Look to the Classics, History, to the Arts, for there is truth. Look away from the systems, the processes, the techniques.

— Charles Guggenheim

I was once judging some prisoner art, and you wouldnt believe the number of eagles and tigers and symbols of freedom and…

— Grayson Perry

Everything that Eddie has said about me is the total opposite of what really happened. Eddie says I wanted to be a…

— Sammy Hagar

There should always be something gratuitous about art, just as there seems to be, according to the new-wave cosmologists, something gratuitous about…

— John Updike

If I wasn't an actress I'd definitely want to do something in the arts and something that was very creative.

— Nikki DeLoach

At its core, kitsch feels like something less than art; it panders to the middle and is flagrantly anti-art, though it often…

— Carrie Brownstein

We are probably the only artists in the world who have a 2,000-page book on a work of art that doesn't exist.…

— Christo

'Commercial' is not the word that has to be said only by CEOs. It has to be something that is maybe the…

— Alber Elbaz

Every makeup artist has a straw somewhere on them, pretty much at all times. They're pros, and it's a lot easier to…

— Kendall Jenner

“The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all…

— Walter Isaacson

Jackie Chan, Jet Li and Bruce Lee are my masters; they're the inspiration for my work. Bruce Lee was a heavy fighter…

— Anonymous

“The obsession with correct political belief and expression in art is stultifying the genre as it is necessarily exclusive. We are losing…

— Scott M. Roberts

If one of God's children finds he cannot see or feel life in other terms than those of form, if he tries…

— Malvina Hoffman

You know, its like, as an artist you want to express your full self. You dont want to either have to make…

— Kim Wayans

“I am not afraid to die because I know heaven is a place of artists, musicians and poets”

— rassool jibraeel snyman

There's something retro about the pop culture references in the paintings, so I'd imagine it's not as much a pop culture reference…

— Joe Bradley

'Honey' was the first song I wrote where I was really enjoying myself again after questioning the idea of being an artist.

— Robyn

All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation's art form.

— Estelle Parsons

My whole life has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against Reaction and the death of art.

— Pablo Picasso

In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.

— Alain de Botton

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

I think it's misleading to think that art is only there for escapism, only there for our dreams of being rich and…

— Saul Williams

Throw your soldiers into positions whence there is no escape, and they will prefer death to flight. If they will face death,…

— Sun Tzu

The master swordsman isn't interested in killing people. He only wants to perfect his art.

— Helen DeWitt

Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music.

— Herbie Hancock

Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying…

— Mahatma Gandhi

It's seldom you make a great picture. you have to milk the cow quite a lot to get plenty of milk to…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

My music library has about every genre of music possible. I've really gotten into Ray LaMontagne, He makes amazing music, so I…

— Jean-Luc Bilodeau

There's a lack of creativity in every field because people are afraid. As an artist in this world we can do whatever…

— Kanye West

If I set out to sculpt a standing man and it becomes a lying woman, I know I am making art.

— Henry Moore

“I don’t know anyone but television assassins and serial killers who’ve perfected the art of sounding deadly over the telephone as well…

— Adrianne Brooks

Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic.

— Al Goldstein

To think about love and passion and political correctness all together, it doesn't work. Art has to go way past the political…

— Louise Erdrich

Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and…

— Edward Thorndike

The world I feel, within the realm of art, is more genuine than the wrorld of matter. Artistic feeling is not tape…

— Gu Cheng

I would like to assure those who would serve Daridranarayana that there is music, art, economy and joy in the spinning wheel.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I think that there is always room for improvement so I am seeking to reach as far as I can in my…

— St. Lucia