Art Quotes · Page 761

I was drawn to the arts because I sensed that I was by nature Bohemian, and yet very conservative.

— Frederick Lenz

Mother-love is not inevitable. The good mother is a great artist ever creating beauty out of chaos

— Alice Randall

For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.

— William Shakespeare

I don’t pay attention to the world. I just have the art I like and the music I like and for me…

— John Frusciante

When things happen socially in our community, as artists, we've got the right to exercise our voices if we choose to, use…

— Raheem DeVaughn

Master Alfred de Musset says great artists have no country. They have also no world! They belong to the space, to the…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I'm not trying to become a pop artist, and I'm not trying to make sure I stay a country artist. I'm just…

— Sam Hunt

Even if we artists are all very privileged, there's a constant frustration about how to do more or better, and never being…

— Jean-Michel Jarre

I'd done performance art sporadically from about 1976 - very personal street things on my own. Acting seemed like a natural step…

— Keith Allen

Probably my favorite artists to listen to James Taylor, Stevie Wonder - I haven't gone back in a really long time and…

— Jonny Lang

When the artist is truly the servant of the work, the work is better than the artist; Shakespeare knew how to listen…

— Madeleine L'Engle

I really wanted to take the viewer to the 'here and now' regarding the exterminations, and communicate directly in a visceral way.…

— Laszlo Nemes

“It always seemed to me," she said at last, "that it must require a great deal of courage to be an artist,…

— Richard Yates

I like real art. It's difficult to define 'real' but it is the best word for describing what I like to get…

— Frank Stella

“A nation which neglects the perceptions of its artists declines. After a while it ceases to act, and merely survives. There is…

— Ezra Pound

'Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era,' the Whitney Museum's 40th-anniversary trip down counterculture memory lane, provides moments of buzzy fun,…

— Jerry Saltz

“The chef who cooks without a song on his lips cannot hope to infuse the right carefree improvisatory note into his art.”

— James Hamilton-Paterson

I think every artist wants to have that 'Grammy award winner' tag in front of their name.

— Jason Aldean

“Writers are the most tormented of all the different categories of artists that are out there in the world.”

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

There's this amazing dialogue between me and my fans. There's an interest in the sharing of intellectual ideas based around art.

— Matty Healy

“Embrace constraint. What you get in return is the art and craft of editing your own life, weeding out what is and…

— Biz Stone

I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as…

— LeRoy Neiman

There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist…

— Jacob Epstein

“Ordinary people are products of their environment and fit in. Artists transcend their environment and stand out.”

— Oliver Gaspirtz

“You feel things too deeply to bear them unless you can get them out of yourself through some sort of art.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

You've got major artists releasing albums on their own and eschewing the major system. I think that breeds excitement and creativity.

— Elijah Wood

“It is only when the mind and imagination are enriched from exposure to the world of beauty, that artistic creativity and inspiration…

— Mark Woollacott

“When we drug ourselves to blot out our soul's call, we are being good Americans and exemplary consumers.”

— Steven Pressfield

Movie queens diffuse into Cinema haze, while libertines read pornozines in street cafes.

— Al Stewart

I wasn't in the art world at all as a kid; I was just creative, and we were always doing arts and…

— Abbi Jacobson

Genius is personal, decided by fate, but it expresses itself by means of system. There is no work of art without system.

— Le Corbusier

Music is an art form that doesn't need to be explained. It needs to be performed; it needs to be felt; it…

— Roberta Flack

The younger generation of hip-hop artists believes in doing something irreverent, inventing a new style. That's all it's about.

— Kodie Shane

As an artist, I would never let myself get boxed in. I'm a human being, too, and like most humans, I have…

— Mike Patton

“Books should be like magical jewelled boxes. It’s the writer’s job to tell the story. My job [the artist] is to make…

— Thomas Canty

The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's…

— Charlton Heston

Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful…

— Aldo Leopold

I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts.

— Lou Reed

I want to expose myself to different streams arts - music, cinema and dance - and allow myself to grow.

— Akshara Haasan

For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of photography but I don't agree.

— Annie Lennox