Art Quotes · Page 797

Art was as much in the activity as in the results. Works of art were not just the finished product, but the…

— Jean M. Auel

Diversity is crucial to art and crucial to cinema. That's a very strong European statement: All people should be able to have…

— Emmanuel Benbihy

Basically I feel like my role is to find great songs with the artists, for the artists, and have them shine.

— Dr. Luke

“My Son, take it not sadly to heart, if any think ill of thee, and say of thee what thou art unwilling…

— Anonymous

Nature is a mere pretext for a decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art.

— Georges Braque

Governments have always been wary of the arts because they're wayward and ambiguous and because they deal with feelings rather than facts.

— Richard Eyre

Music is one of the highest art forms there is. It can define a life, change a life, or even safe a…

— Anonymous

I'm a huge fan of R. Kelly's. He's a musical genius and probably the most prolific artist of the generation before mine.

— The Weeknd

First, by the figurations of art there be made instruments of navigation without men to row them, as great ships to brooke…

— Roger Bacon

Everything an artist does is scary, but we do it anyway. If someone tries to steer you off-course, push them outta the…

— Zacky Vengeance

I have not, in general, much belief in the ability of woman as a creative artist. Unwritten lyrics, as [Ralph Waldo] Emerson…

— Fredrika Bremer

“Pornography won’t be enough. Because it never is. Sooner or later, all niggers want to touch the real thing. All dogs want…

— Peter Sotos

The arts inform as well as stimulate; they challenge as well as satisfy. Their location is not limited to galleries, concert halls…

— Elliot W. Eisner

God's careful instructions for building the tabernacle in Exodus 31 remind us that his perfection sets the standard for whatever we create…

— Philip Graham Ryken

“Hunger Howls You will always feel hungry if you keep starving yourself to feed others The vacant call from your belly is…

— Christine Evangelou

I wanted to be a "serious artist." Serious artists didn't tend to be funny. But that didn't get me a lot of…

— Gabrielle Bell

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

— Andre Gide

Nice! First they insult my art, then they call me dead! Which incidentally I'm not! - Spencer

— ICarly

When you can give without expecting anything in return, you have mastered the art of living.

— Jon Mead

The desire to discover, the desire to move, to capture the flavor, three concepts that describe the art of photography.

— Helmut Newton

Dance ... is life, or becomes it, in a way that other arts cannot attain. It is not in stone, or words…

— Baker Brownell

I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man's urge to open his heart

— Edvard Munch

I think to say that meditation is helpful to artists is true and it's great, but it's also essentially helpful to any…

— Amanda Palmer

There's a point where art is not subjective, and my example for that is Picasso. If you don't like Picasso, that's your…

— Danny Huston

The magi, as you know, were wise men wonderfully wise men who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented…

— O. Henry

If you are any kind of an artist, then validation . . . can be a result, but you're going to do the work anyway.

— David Sedaris

My feet are not a good part of my body. They definitely have suffered for my art. They're, like, all bunions and…

— Lindy Booth

Photography brought a lot to painting because it forced artists to think about what painting could do that photography couldn't.

— John Lanchester

I would rather live in Russia on black bread and vodka than in the United States at the best hotels. America knows…

— Isadora Duncan

Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in…

— Banksy

Engineering...to define rudely but not inaptly, is the art of doing that well with one dollar, which any bungler can do with…

— Anonymous

I believe the artist is capable of contributing to the broader evolution of culture in all of its dimensions.

— Kehinde Wiley

We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness.

— Anish Kapoor

I'm an artist, I'm very artistic and it's great to have that. I have a lot drawings and paintings up in my…

— Chace Crawford

I would never, ever start a fight with someone after a fight. I'm a martial artist from the beginning, since I was…

— Dillon Danis

You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the…

— Paul Cezanne

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

— Jean Racine

“The artist's job is not to succumb to despair, but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existance”

— Woody Allen

It is what you make it. Just make it good and expose it to the world. With enough exposure people will adapt.…

— Anette Sandberg

I paint because this is what I love to do. I have been painting since I was a kid and my dream…

— Leonid Afremov