Art Quotes · Page 813

We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I love that I am being offered films but I just couldn't do the 'cotton sari-strong woman' role again. As an artiste,…

— Shweta Menon

I knew I wanted to be a writer at 13. Before that, I told everyone I was going to be an artist.

— Siri Hustvedt

Art is based on very clear, mathematical principles like proportion and harmony. At the same time, physicists need to be inventive, to…

— Fabiola Gianotti

I try to remember that the job - as well as the plight, and the unexpected joy - of the artist is…

— Dani Shapiro

“Please DO waste art materials. Use paper. Empty paint jars. Deplete pens. if it's teaching you stuff, it's not being wasted.”

— Danny Gregory

I'm not an artist. I tell inappropriate stories and jokes and I try to make people laugh.

— Kathy Griffin

I think a lot of the more successful artists of our time basically have barracudas for managers

— Robben Ford

“Because each work of art originates in the mind and feelings of a human being, it reaches its destination in the mind…

— George Heard Hamilton

[St. Ives] is a wonderful place to live. It's a small fishing town and one can live there inexpensively. There's a sympathetic…

— Warren MacKenzie

Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is…

— Clive Bell

A good mother remembers to serve fruit at breakfast, is always cheerful and never yells, manages not to project her own neuroses…

— Ayelet Waldman

An artist's voice, communication, that's very important. The learning, the building of your energy to communicate deeper and deeper even without words,…

— Giuseppe Andrews

Most of the musicians that I know almost to the man everybody uses Apple computers. They've thought of the steps that you're…

— Mike Shinoda

The transformation of nature, a total fusion of science, art and technology in a sublime statement of human dignity and intelligence through…

— Paulo Mendes da Rocha

“You know, there used to be a difference between authentic music and sellout music. I'm talking about when I was young, in…

— Nathan Hill

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.

— Anonymous

“But he hadn’t dealt with my mother, who was five parts artist and one part nuts, which made her all pistachios.”

— Mary Hughes

“The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His works means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning.”

— Truman Capote

I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.

— Lady Gaga

Because of the nature of the profession of architecture, the art of architecture nourishes itself from other disciplines.

— Santiago Calatrava

A good musical comedy consists largely of disorderly conduct occassionally interrupted by talk.

— George Ade

The purpose of art is to represent the meaning of things. This represents the true reality, not external aspects.

— Aristotle

An artist should make concessions to the listener. That is why Bruckner dedicated one of his symphonies to the Good Lord.

— Karl Kraus

In one's garden a person may be one's own artist without apology or explanation. Here is one spot where each may experience…

— Louise Wilder

“Only by examining our personal biases can we grow as artists; only by cultivating empathy can we grow as people.”

— Jen Knox

Being content with what you have already is an art form that leads to a peace that can’t be replaced by anything…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there's no point in it…for me, every…

— Truman Capote

Maybe if they all could he combined - art, rock and fashion. Those were always my favorite things.

— Stephen Sprouse

Fashion goes with the feeling of the moment. It's related to movies, to art, to young people's taste.

— Gianni Versace

We need to regain the art of civil discourse and more practically, I don't think you change anyone's mind by calling them…

— Steven Petrow

Mrs. Patrick Cambell is an aged British battleship sinking rapidly and firing every available gun on her rescuers.

— Alexander Woollcott

Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in…

— Kenneth Noland

My basic mission as an artist is to communicate with people. Therefore, I am conscious I have to make films that people…

— Balachandra Menon

“What simple and ordinary lives we live, underneath the shadows of projection screen artists”

— Volatalistic Phil

Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.

— Jason Mraz

A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the…

— Anonymous

To be an artist, one must . . . never shirk from the truth as he understands it, never withdraw from life

— Diego Rivera

“Among the hardest problems an art theory faces are questions about how to settle art’s meaning through interpretation”

— Cynthia Freeland

One of the biggest things happening in the art world is this idea of expansion. No one embodies this aspect of what…

— Jeffrey Deitch