Art Quotes · Page 731

Mime is an art beyond words. It is the art of the essential. And you cannot lie. You have to show the…

— Marcel Marceau

I've dated the sweet mama's boy, the musician rocker, the struggling artist - basically a lot of people without jobs.

— Alyssa Milano

A lot of my building blocks - who I am kind of as an artist - all came from being in L.A.

— Steve Aoki

“An artist so perfect reproduces the Mona Lisa, rubbished for being unoriginal proves talent & result unrelated.”

— A.C. Quinn

All art is autobiographical - if it's not, it's not going to quicken on-stage, and it's not going to come alive.

— Constantin Stanislavski

Most artists lose their voice, their hair, and their bands. That's not going to happen to me.

— Prince

Girls seemed to like artists! I felt very drawn to the idea of power, really, and doing painting as a power trip,…

— Malcolm Morley

I think that this stage in my life is really, for a lot of reasons, pretty incredible. Being a solo artist and…

— Nick Jonas

“Art is neither good nor bad, but a clairvoyant vision of the nature of both, and any attempt to align it with…

— Northrop Frye

Good art can come out of thieves, bootleggers, or horse swipes. People really are afraid to find out just how much hardship…

— William Faulkner

“Be game--take a chance--don't hide behind veils and veils of discretion... Go forward with what you have to say, expressing things as…

— Robert Henri

“The trees and shrubs rear white arms to the sky on every side; and where were walls and fences, we see forms…

— Henry David Thoreau

I dated a girl from a rival high school and none of the girls from my school liked that. I was in…

— Chace Crawford

Back in the early days like for the Temptations, Supremes and Four Tops, artist development was alive in record companies. Every artist…

— Laurieann Gibson

I felt most beautiful on the red carpet in Givenchy's sheer lace dress at a dinner hosted by Givenchy in honor of…

— Joan Smalls

“Science and art,... they seek the truth and the meaning of life, they seek God, [and] the soul, and when they are…

— Anton Chekhov

I still think, most of the time, when people called shows like 'The Sopranos' or 'Deadwood' 'art' that they were correct.

— Michelle Dean

The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Here in England, everyone's a pop star, innit, whereas in America they believe in the term artist.

— Amy Winehouse

I think great art should play a part in the ordinary man's life, don't you? It can make his existence so much…

— Philip K. Dick

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords-philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.

— Anonymous

The finest productions of human art are immensely short of the meanest work of Nature. The nicest artist cannot make a feather…

— Thomas Reid

I'm doing a collaborative project with another artist, Mary Hamill. My project is to gather the oral history of war widows, starting…

— Chath Piersath

Many days you will want to give up because of rejections and failures. Passion to be an artist will help you prevail…

— Jack White

''The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art…

— Albert Einstein

All my work is created from personal experiences. My hope is always that others will see it as a gateway, develop their…

— Sanford Biggers

The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything…

— F. L. Lucas

The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to…

— Anonymous

Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.

— Walter Darby Bannard

One line typed twenty years ago can be blazed on a wall in spraypaint to glorify art as detachment or torture of…

— Adrienne Rich

I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look…

— Jack Nicholson

A lot of bands are still just bands that artists ask to get involved, but a lot of artists are using sound…

— Brian Chippendale

When I criticize Joseph Beuys or Francis Bacon, nobody calls those opinions anti-male. Putting female artists or their subject matter off-limits is…

— Jerry Saltz

I think comedy is incredibly discriminated against. It is one of the most enjoyed yet most condescended art forms in the world.…

— Brett Gelman

Zhang Yimou tried to use martial arts to talk about Chinese culture, Chinese people. What do they think, what do they want…

— Jet Li

In the late 80s, artists could be signed to labels and be nurtured. It wasn't, "We're going to give you one shot,…

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.

— Anais Nin

A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such…

— Joseph Addison

Art Nouveau got its inspiration from nature. The Bauhaus got its inspiration from engineering.

— P. J. O'Rourke

To me, the art of music is magnificent, and I cannot bear to see it treated in a shabby way.

— Maria Callas