Art Quotes · Page 772

The highest Art of the Chess player lies in not allowing your Opponent to show you what he can do.

— Garry Kasparov

I see myself as a martial artist. I'm a creative fighter. It's not about hitting the guy and hurting him, it's about…

— Chris Eubank Sr

One ought, every day at least,to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture,and, if it were possible,…

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

In the digital world, we have forgotten the meaning of 'persistence of vision'. Art is something we have to hold on to.

— Suhasini Maniratnam

When some artistes give a hit song, they keep repeating themselves in the same genre. I always try to create something new.

— Yo Yo Honey Singh

Killing with the point lacks artistry, but don't let that hold your hand when the opening presents itself.

— Frank Herbert

When people see success, particularly investors, they are much more willing to invest in artistic projects.

— Jenova Chen

It's exciting to consider how art, in its ability to reveal, can be ahead of the artist.

— Vivek Shraya

Don't forget that in the midst of all your pain and heartache, you are surrounded by beauty, the wonder of creation, art,…

— Anonymous

I have always been involved with radio, whether it was as an artist talking to radio about my own songs, or as…

— MC Serch

You and your opponent are one. There is a coexisting relationship between you. You coexist with your opponent and become his complement,…

— Bruce Lee

The time is a thing; you don't have so much time. A good trick is to try and think about a way…

— Thomas McDonell

It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Are artists the canaries in the mine, warning of the coming explosion before anyone else? It's hard to look at the world…

— Margaret MacMillan

Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called…

— Jerry Saltz

The illustrator is essentially a reporter: his subjects come from the outside, lit by a flash. A subject comes to the classical…

— Kenneth Clark

Homosexual behavior has been exploited, and reveled in, and celebrated in art, for millennia.

— John Piper

The role of art in society is not to resolve conflicts; rather, it is to express these conflicts and antagonisms.

— Cai Guo-Qiang

It is only with the best judges that the highest works of art would lose none of their honor by being seen…

— John Frederick Boyes

I feel like an artist often turns the camera on themselves and on their own families to understand who they are.

— Laurie Simmons

From all that I have seen, I am more than ever convinced that art must communicate, and it must represent, describe and…

— Raphael Soyer

By the single example of this painter devoted to his art with such independence, my destiny as a painter opened out to…

— Claude Monet

I used to think that great art happened without argument, and maybe that’s not the case. Maybe the things that are most…

— Jon Foreman

Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

— Gloria Steinem

I always think that art is one of the most wonderful exciting curious ways to learn. I have no worries or apologies…

— Peter Greenaway

We are cutting things kids like-music, art, and gym classes; stuff that kept me in school. This country can't survive without you…

— Tony Danza

I'm envious of 'Glee' - artists turned their libraries over for free because they knew it would lead to album sales.

— Adam F. Goldberg

[The sensate body possesses] an art of interrogating the sensible according to its own wishes, an inspired exegesis.

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

I was thinking that people have to believe you're crazy in order to take you seriously as an artist.

— Danger Mouse

I didn't want to just work within Hollywood when I started a production company. I wanted to be able to collaborate with…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I was in jail a couple of times, and I was probably heading back there for a long time. But martial arts…

— Mark Hunt

We lost so many talented artists and writers from the generations before ours that we're really lacking older figureheads.

— Christopher Bollen

I suppose I have come to realize that entertainment is not easily dismissed. Beyond the meaning (of a work of art), it…

— Stan Lee

“The problem with the Bobby Fischer theory is that Chappelle is not the kind of artist to meticulously plan ahead, let alone…

— Jason Zinoman

Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.

— William Hazlitt

Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand…

— Roy Lichtenstein

It's just so fun to share that experience with your best friend when you're finding your voice as an artist.

— Dave McCary

I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning.

— Camille Paglia

I was always trying to take art photographs, but the most interesting pictures were the snapshots. The artsy pictures were boring, always.

— Janet Malcolm

Of course, you have to have a good reputation, especially as an artist, as a musician, so that other musicians would like…

— Airto Moreira