Art Quotes · Page 814

I can only think of a handful of artists that can make a funny painting or a funny sculpture without it feeling…

— Joe Bradley

“These images could tell a thousand different stories. That’s the best kind of art, where the viewer can see the same image…

— Rebecca Barrow

I don't think people are born artists; I think it comes from a mixture of your surroundings, the people you meet, and…

— Francis Bacon

Sometimes I feel like a one man crusade against the devaluation of music in America and culture in the arts.

— Terry Bozzio

I just feel like the songs I write lend themselves to this girl-power feeling, and those are the artists that I looked…

— Charli XCX

Artists live with God – but give their little finger to Satan. I sleep with the angels and dream of the devil.

— Heitor Villa-Lobos

To be present - really, truly present - in art and life requires empathizing with uncertainty and wrestling with risk.

— Andy Greenwald

Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. That in art is highest which aims at this.

— Michelangelo

Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing; To his music, plants…

— William Shakespeare

The world that I am coming from, hip-hop, is so regurgitated and repetitive that some people are used to that and they…

— Kid Cudi

“The following also was nobly spoken by someone or other, for it is doubtful who the author was; they asked him what…

— Seneca

“You say great artists sell their souls for their art?" "Maybe," she ventured. "That's true, I suppose. If you're doing it right,…

— Sam Starbuck

The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangling limitations of…

— Raymond Chandler

The reason that art (writing, engaging, and all of it) is valuable is precisely why I cant tell you how to do…

— ZhatsPrincess

I personally don't like to draw a line between 'K-pop' and pop music, but I do think it is a good time…

— Jennie

My mother teaches high school English, and she's an artist and a poet and a sculptor, she's published twelve poetry books. I…

— Jason Silva

I want my soldiers - I mean artists - to be young and strong, with tireless energy performing impossible feats of cunning…

— Rene Ricard

How would you define [Bob] Dylan? You can't. That's a true artist. How about Ray Charles? Can you classify Ray Charles? No,…

— George Thorogood

A lot of my work is about sales. And it was about being independent from the art market.

— Jeff Koons

I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. He's very original, very accurate and acute.

— Helen Vendler

The canary bird in the coal mine theory of the arts: artists should be treasured as alarm systems.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“...it's the duty of artists to volunteer to do particle counting. Don't leave creation up to the accountants.”

— Maxine Hong Kingston

The proper artistic response to digital technology is to embrace is as a new window on evrything that's eternally human,and to use…

— Anonymous

Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying.

— Saint Augustine

The poet wants justice. And the poet wants art. In poetry we can't have one without the other.

— Edward Hirsch

Art is a celebration of life, intended by the artist to put the spectator in touch with the divine.

— Joseph Plaskett

Nature was indeed at her artistic best when she created the nutmeg, a delight to the eye in all its avatars, from…

— Waverley Root

“Watercress. Jesus. He knew every gun that had ever been manufactured. Every hold in every martial art. This was beyond him. What…

— Lisa Marie Rice

I don't really have a favorite pop artist - I just listen to some pop songs here and there. Mostly, though, it's…

— Lilla Crawford

Hiring people is an art, not a science, and resumes can't tell you whether someone will fit into a company's culture.

— Howard Schultz

You hoop with a certain expression. That's your art. You've crafted it, so it is your art.

— Willie Cauley-Stein

The practicality of technology may distinguish it from art, but both spring from a similar, distinctly human yearning.

— Nicholas G. Carr

I like to dress up but I'm not so concerned with looking very sexy, it's really more the art of dressing.

— Andrej Pejic

“I have a hard time picturing anyone wanting to let you go, even though you have being grumpy down to an art…

— Jay Crownover

If you're speaking of love, you really must include the element of uncertainty - and perhaps it's best approached as the art…

— Twyla Tharp

One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.

— Susan Neiman

London clubland divides itself between the St James's refuge for toffs, and the Conquest of Cool, for the arts and media.

— Peter York

I believe that friendship, like love, of which it is a particular kind, requires nearly as much art as a successful choreography.

— Marguerite Yourcenar

It's a curse. I ask God to take this away from me all the time. I do not like being an artist.

— Kevin Gates

Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.

— Marshall McLuhan