Art Quotes · Page 719

Of all the artists who emerged in the '80s, I think perhaps Cindy Sherman is the most important.

— Chuck Close

My child, if you want to have a beautiful and happy life... 2 things you need... learn the art of love and…

— Carlos Barrios

Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual…

— Charles Baudelaire

All great literature has an uncreeded and luminous theology behind it... Art [is] a form of active prayer.

— Melissa Pritchard

You have your own perceptions as an artist because you're put on this planet to create mystery, but you're put here to…

— Anthony Davis

I wanted to create art that fit the Pinterest interior aesthetic, because that is so of the internet age and my platform,…

— Caroline Calloway

I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to…

— Plato

Mixed martial arts has small windows of opportunity and there's always new faces coming through, so it's easy to forget you.

— Jimi Manuwa

I definitely do not think of makeup as, like, a validation type thing. For me, it's a creative outlet and an art…

— James Charles

“Why do you paint, Akram?” I asked. “What—” “Close your eyes, Sebastian,” he said, stopping me. “Just for a minute, close them…

— Ahmad Ardalan

Art is a severe business; most serious when employed in grand and sacred objects. The artist stands higher than art, higher than…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One never finishes learning about art. There are always new things to discover. Great works of art seem to look different every…

— Ernst Gombrich

The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but the laying down of being. Philosophy is…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

When I write music for a film, I'm not writing a solo album, and I'm not writing a personal piece. I'm part…

— Johann Johannsson

Seoul has many good tourism resources, including nature, history and people. To take advantage of these, we have to make efforts, to…

— Park Won-soon

It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism--Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique…

— Igor Stravinsky

I paint my pictures with all the considerations which are natural to my intelligence, and according as my intelligence understands them.

— Paolo Veronese

Arty farty, you'll never fool your Aunt, who knew you picked your nose and wet your pants.

— Ray Davies

I got to build a career on signing with a record label that viewed me as a partner and not as an…

— Carly Pearce

A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the…

— Robert Smithson

We get jealous not because we're evil, but because we have little artists pent up inside us.

— William McDonough

There is always an unconscious collaboration among artists.. ..the artist who imagine himself a Robinson Crusoe is either a primitive or a…

— William Baziotes

A lot of true Jamaican artists don't understand the importance of radio so tend not to tap into that as a result.

— Shaggy

Beethoven in c minor has come to symbolize his artistic character...where he seems to be most impatient of any compromise.

— Charles Rosen

Most of the martial arts techniques go in waves of popularity and usefulness, but they all work.

— Frank Shamrock

Everybody is different. Some people like to share more. I just wouldn't want to spoil someone's opinion of me by them knowing…

— Marina and the Diamonds

I think that sex, drugs, art and religion very much overlap with one another and sometimes one becomes another.

— Brian Eno

We had nothing. But my mom's taste in culture and art and movies was phenomenal. We watched everything: Spike Lee, Woody Allen,…

— Robby Hoffman

I've been a character artiste for four decades, and in our job, we learn very early that it doesn't pay to be…

— Radha Ravi

It's always weird when it comes to awards and awards season because how can you say that this performance is better than…

— Corey Hawkins

Even though I feel I am a bit reticent and shy, performing arts like dancing and acting is like my alter ego.

— Sanya Malhotra

If you're wandering the streets, talking in gibberish, nobody ever asks you to change anything about your art because there's no context…

— Danger Mouse

I felt it was really, really important, not just in the vein of feminist erasure or whatever but also just as an…

— Kathleen Hanna

Thou art beautiful because God created thee, but thou art a slave to sin... wickedness has made you ugly.

— George MacDonald

I love art. I love music. It's more about the lifestyle you yourself have - that's the most inspiring thing. The way…

— Nicolas Ghesquiere

Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.

— Anonymous

What we are headed for is a sort of social structure in which the highbrows are the elite, the middlebrows are the…

— Russell Lynes

Even today, I dare not say that I have reached a state of achievement. I'm still learning, for learning is boundless.

— Bruce Lee

I definitely think that using that artistic side of your brain, just having an outlet for emotion is very important, whether it…

— Sarah Jeffery

I don't agree with this romantic fantasy that people who suffer from depression are more likely to be artists. I find that…

— Sinead O'Connor