Art Quotes · Page 738

The most fundamental truth to be told in any art form, as far as Blacks are concerned, is that America is killing…

— Sonia Sanchez

I think as a creative person, anything you put in front of an artist, any type of medium, your specific tastes will…

— Julia Fox

Now a soldier's spirit is keenest in the morning; by noonday it has begun to flag; and in the evening, his mind…

— Sun Tzu

People think artists like 50 Cent don't have charisma, but it's just a different kind of charisma, a bully charisma, which is…

— Earl Sweatshirt

What seems distinctively modern as a unit of thought, of art, of discourse is the fragment; and the quotation is one kind…

— Susan Sontag

So it's hard to be an artist and be true to the reality of the world you want to create and also…

— Antoine Fuqua

I was lucky enough to first meet Elvis at his house in Bel Air and he used to invite different artists, singers…

— Jackie DeShannon

With Priyadarshan, he is extremely strict but lets me do what I want. You have that kind of freedom as an artiste.

— Sameera Reddy

In the deepest hour of the night I confess to myself three things; I would die if I was forbidden to write,…

— Lady Gaga

I think one of the things that started to hinder Baldwin as an artist later on was that he became really aware…

— Hilton Als

“True politics cannot take a single step without first paying homage to morals, and while politics itself is a difficult art, its…

— Immanuel Kant

I mean, the idea that it might help somebody out or help somebody make the decision to become a stewardess or otherwise...…

— Zooey Deschanel

Maybe we didn't even have a chance. The message of American Pop Art was so powerful and so optimistic. But it was…

— Gerhard Richter

“Conversely, high-reactive children may be more likely to develop into artists and writers and scientists and thinkers because their aversion to novelty…

— Susan Cain

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and…

— Anonymous

Science, like art, religion, political theory, or psychoanalysis - is work that holds out the promise of philosophic understanding, excites in us…

— Vivian Gornick

They say rock is dead. Andy [Warhol] said art is dead. God is dead according to Nietzsche. If everything's dead what's alive?…

— Sean Lennon

We were second-generation immigrants, and it was luxury enough to go to college. The luxury of the arts was still a generation…

— Robert Picardo

Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.

— William Wordsworth

All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.

— Roman Payne

My daughter's 19. I'm not asking her to develop as an artist. I'm just asking her to develop as a full person,…

— Chuck D

When you devote yourself to being an artist, you have to stay on your craft and always try to get better and…

— Raekwon

“After 1968 the restored communist regime required all Czech rock musicians to sit a written exam in Marxism Leninism”

— Niall Ferguson

The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.

— Leo Tolstoy

“For an artist, there's nothing better than having the opportunity to create a world that doesn't- but could- exist.”

— Christophe Lautrette

“I love you beyond paint, beyond melodies, beyond words. And I hope you will always feel that, even when I'm not around…

— Kiera Cass

The deep art... That's the part that has to be guarded like a miser would his money... Like a dope addict would…

— Alonzo King

For goodness sakes, beware of curls… It is a great art to do them so that the girls not only look modern…

— Diana Vreeland

Art curates compassion. Art to me breaks down walls and allows us to step into somebody else's shoes.

— Kerry Washington

I must have made 20 different bicycles in my life; bicycle parts are like works of art in miniature.

— David Linley

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

— Auguste Rodin

“We move through a course on Dostoevsky or Poe as we move through a mildly good cocktail party...Art...is less like a cocktail…

— John Gardner

I took no money to make art, but my woman backed me up on it and I want my children to see…

— Jason Momoa

“For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness and atonement — meaning atoneness, the state of being at one with the object.

— D. H. Lawrence

“David Brooks summarizes this reality more bluntly: “[Great creative minds] think like artists but work like accountants.”

— Cal Newport

Language, thought, analysis, art, dance, poetry, mythmaking: these are the things that point the way toward the realm of the eschaton.

— Terence McKenna

I'm probably the biggest show-off in the world. But I also happen to be an artist. You can be both, you know.

— Keith Allen

I believe art should be an integral part of life. I try to give my work an almost magical energy that makes…

— Stephen Huneck

With the fall of the empire, Art, Philosophy and decent drains all vanished from the West.

— Bryan Ward-Perkins