Art Quotes · Page 784

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

— Ariel Pink

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

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

— David Berman

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

— Arnold Schoenberg

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

— Baris Gencel

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

— Mary Wigman

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

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

— Perrey Reeves

[A politician is] a person skilled in the art of compromise. Usually an elected official who has compromised to get nominated, compromised…

— Dick Gregory

As an aspiring artist, you should strive for originality of vision. Have something to say and a fresh way of saying it.…

— Maurice Sendak

It is possible that the meaning of wisdom in Hebrew indicates aptitude for stratagems and the application of thought in such a…

— Maimonides

'The Outsider' is a culmination of a lot of things I've been working diligently toward as a recording artist. Hopefully it will…

— Rodney Crowell

Whether this will prove a blessing or a curse, will depend upon the use our people will make of the blessings which…

— Patrick Henry

Artists, in theory, should not be limited to their personal experience, culture, identity, and worldview. But they must also accept that the…

— Sarah Weinman

“What is it about it, anyway? Stealing.’ ‘It’s …’ It’s an instinct, I want to say. ... It’s art. But she would…

— Hannu Rajaniemi

The man who reacts to the universe with a cry of impotent anguish is acceptable as an artist only if he can…

— Kenneth Tynan

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

— Nas

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

— Arnold Friberg

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

— Patricia Piccinini

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

— Robert Gober

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

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

— Eugene Delacroix

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

— Josh Farrar

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

— Ansel Adams

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

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

— Mikhail Sholokhov

Visionary idealism is a male art form. The lesbian aesthete does not exist. But if there were one, she would have learned…

— Camille Paglia

The artist has to be something like a whale swimming with his mouth wide open, absorbing everything until he has what he…

— Romare Bearden

And its object is Art not power, sub-creation not domination and tyrannous re-forming of Creation.

— Anonymous

“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 Fine Arts are five in number: Painting, Music, Poetry, Sculpture, and Architecture--whereof the principle branch is Confectionery.”

— Antonin Carême

'In order to lead a fascinating life, one brimming with art, music,intrigue and Romance? One must surround themselves with precisely those THINGS!'

— Andrew Guzaldo

“But having mastered the art of descending the stairs to a gathering of admirers, she had yet to master the art of…

— Amor Towles

I lived in the world of poetry and ideas. I thought life was all about art and philosophy. In the military, I…

— Shahin Najafi

Loneliness was tough, the toughest role you ever played. Hollywood created a superstar, and pain was the price you paid.

— Elton John

“Artistic talent is far more common than the talent to nurture artistic talent. Any parent with a hard hand can crush it,…

— Stephen King

I have to say, that's pretty typical for artists, kind of embarrassingly typical for artists that everything is all about selection.

— David Salle