Art Quotes · Page 753

I would say being deeply involved in the art world would help keep a young artist on track. Doing what you love,…

— Jada Pinkett Smith

Despite its scientific pretensions, economics still remains more of an art than a science

— Robert Kuttner

All the power of the occult healer lies in his conscious will, and all his art consists in producing faith in the…

— Eliphas Levi

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

— Susan Sontag

When I think about 'Beast Mode,' that's what I think about. I don't think about just a hard project; they just created…

— Zaytoven

In martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something.

— Jet Li

The art market is global now, and there's becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art.

— Larry Gagosian

I knew what I wanted to do, which was to become a recording artist, so I definitely felt like I had a…

— Ariel Pink

Whatever experimental film aromas cloaked my movies were because I'm a gleefully clumsy, primitive filmmaker. I really like traditional pleasingly narrative films,…

— Guy Maddin

A lot of people, especially Christians, want to put you in this box of being a Christian actor, and I don't believe…

— Zachary Levi

Certain jobs [films] are for the business really, because they get an audience, they get a global audience. Certain jobs are as…

— Jack O'Connell

When somebody greedily comes along and thinks that they gonna snatch everything, and you have so many people that have not, the…

— Chuck D

It is by losing ourselves in inquiry, creation & craft that we become something. Civilization is a continual gift of spirit: inventions,…

— Paul Goodman

Fiction keeps its audience by retaining the world as its subject matter. People like the world. Many people actually prefer it to…

— Annie Dillard

If you commit yourself to the art of poetry, you commit yourself to the task of learning how to see, using words…

— Archibald MacLeish

Everyone has their own journey, and for me, going from singing background to writing songs has truly opened doors for me and…

— Luke James

It is an art to be where you are, and see happiness in life's ever changing landscape. Today look with new eyes,…

— Ritu Ghatourey

Every artistic form has its golden age, and unfortunately I think the golden age for whatever I do probably ended about 1990.

— Daryl Hall

People who die in an untimely way who are artists, somehow that validates their art, we feel. Why culturally we feel that,…

— Kevin Macdonald

I prefer working with artists who are prepared to get down in the dungeons and get the job done.

— Shaggy

I have plenty of enemies... among artists who resent my earning a living. They think I should go off and starve while…

— Arnold Friberg

The nice thing about growing up in that kind of environment is you were exposed to so much -- music, plays, art…

— Perrey Reeves

I want to hear the artist. I want to hear them give me something that I can relate to, other than the…

— Nas

I think art is about human existence. Almost by default I'm expressing my experiences as a human.

— Robert Gober

Most of the work I make uses materials that are a bit outside of the traditional fine art world.

— Patricia Piccinini

For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I…

— Rita Dove

“Writing is a simple but elusive art,” he said. “To write is to describe. Describe accurately and respectfully. And perhaps passionately.”

— Josh Farrar

The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them…

— Eugene Delacroix

If music is frozen architecture, then the potpourri is frozen coffee-table gossip... Potpourri is the art of adding apples to pears…

— Arnold Schoenberg

I was much further along as a poet than as a songwriter, but the songs were getting more attention. They were doing…

— David Berman

Art is communication spoken by man for humanity in a language raised above the everyday happening.

— Mary Wigman

“For me, meaning of design is to give soul to objects by Art. Art sometimes need to be in every part of…

— Baris Gencel

When it comes to our makeup artist asking me, 'So, what do you want today?' I'm like, 'I don't know.' I have…

— Dinah Jane

“She was highly gifted in the art of human intercourse which consists in delicate shades of self-forgetfulness and in the suggestion of…

— Joseph Conrad

“We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies--but this is very different.”

— David Foster Wallace

There should be something revelatory about art. It should be totally creative and open doors for new thoughts and experiences.

— Tracey Emin

I give you everything you want as an artist, for so long. Consistency. Wordplay. Wittiness. You can check the checklist. Only thing…

— Jadakiss

The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.

— Ansel Adams

In my opinion, the true pioneers are those artists who make manifest in their works the new content, the determining characteristics of…

— Mikhail Sholokhov

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer