Art Quotes · Page 758

Nowadays, with digital printing, it’s so easy to make everything perfect, which is not always a good idea. Sometimes the mistakes are…

— Cindy Sherman

Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art…

— Jacob Bronowski

Nature and abstract forms are both materials for art, and the choice of one or the other flows from historically changing interests.

— Meyer Schapiro

Graffiti is art, but you don't see graffiti in the National Gallery. Graffiti is on the street - that's where it belongs.

— Jme

We do want to be diverted and be interested and be provoked by popular culture - by art, if we're lucky. And…

— Elvis Mitchell

Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods

— CS Lewis

To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom.

— James Joyce

Everyone needs a creative outlet to express themselves, and the arts in school provides that.

— Amber Riley

A lot of artists fail when they try to act, and they flop. So when I get into acting, it's going to…

— Bad Bunny

I think some of the musicians are more like punk rock musicians. It's like an art as opposed to being a musician.…

— Wayne Coyne

When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life, and it…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The universal nature has no external space; but the wondrous part of her art is that though she has circumscribed herself, everything…

— Marcus Aurelius

A giant as we hoped, in truth, a dwarf; A barrel of slop that shines on Lethe's wharf', Which at first seemed…

— Edgar Lee Masters

The most important quality of art and its aim is illusion; emotion, which is often obtained by certain sacrifices of poetic detail,…

— Gustave Flaubert

In his very rejection of art Walt Whitman is an artist. He tried to produce a certain effect by certain means and…

— Oscar Wilde

What gets me excited by the process of making art is how unrelated elements get fused, which is a formal process. The…

— Jordan Wolfson

The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and…

— Joseph Campbell

“The arts can sharpen the vision, quicken the intellect, preserve the memory, activate the conscience, enhance the understanding and refresh the language.”

— Steve Turner

The expectation on me as a solo artist is very different to the audience's expectation of a Pink Floyd show.

— David Gilmour

The growth of populations has in no way increased the amount [of art], it has merely increased the adeptness with which substitutes…

— Raymond Chandler

There are so many artists, so many songs, so many producers, that it's hard to keep track of whose music is worthwhile.

— Anthony Fantano

I know that the fans are also very responsible for an artist's success and feel like they deserve to be recognized.

— Chamillionaire

In the rest of Europe, dance is seen as a sport and in the UK it's seen as an art. And art…

— Oti Mabuse

With the closures of art schools and the drop-off in humanities, you can see where that's a direct loss for the country.

— Kelly Reichardt

I have always felt a connection between daily life and art...my reality has been my key.

— Mirella Freni

“isn't there some philosophy about how it's the arts that separate humans from animals? Really? I thought it was not eating our…

— Claire Zorn

One of the great things about collecting contemporary art is that you mix with contemporary people.

— Laurence Graff

One of the advantages of not going to art school is that you're not taught what you can't do.

— Ben Eine

What's interesting about art in public spaces is that the public really sort of takes over and uses it in ways that…

— Teresita Fernandez

I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill.

— Wallace Stevens

I worked as an artist, played in a band, met Andy Warhol, Christo, Lou Reed, and David Byrne. I had fun.

— Mary Lou Jepsen

When I was 14 I was really influenced by artists like Protoje and Chronixx, so I started writing lyrics.

— Koffee

There are certain moments where artwork might seem like it's part of someone's career - if you really know the art world…

— Christopher Bollen

“The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before being vanquished.”

— Charles Baudelaire

The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.

— Charles Horton Cooley

I don't want to be an artist that gets stuck doing one thing. I don't want to be an artist who people…

— Ryan McGinley

The idea of entrepreneurship applies as much in politics, religion, society and the arts as it does in business.

— Geoff Mulgan

Even before I became an artiste, when I barely had the means to support anyone financially, I took care of several destitute…

— Roopa Ganguly

By my definition, most art has nothing to do with oil paint or marble. Art is what we're doing when we do…

— Seth Godin