Art Quotes · Page 818

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.

— Hippocrates

“art”? Simply stated, give control away when you don’t need it, so you can get some back when you do!”

— Jim Fay

The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language…

— Henri Matisse

Every artist should live by these words: Never feel bad about successfully selling your creations. Never feel bad about creating art you…

— Marc Ecko

Deception is a developed art of civilization and the most potent weapon in the game of power

— Robert Greene

You know, when I was younger I was into all kinds of art - drawing, painting, all that stuff. But I played…

— Shooter Jennings

Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town.

— Steven Curtis Chapman

As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.

— Vincent Van Gogh

“Cronkite had mastered the intentional pause, the need for frozen seconds of long silence at certain historic moments. Nobody before or after…

— Douglas Brinkley

“The art of governing, Dickon, is that of making use of talent wherever you do find it. Trust is too rare an…

— Sharon Kay Penman

The cinema was certainly an art, but television can't be, because it is the museum of accidents. In other words, its art…

— Paul Virilio

The center for me is my heart, actually, and my emotional connection with the work. That's where authenticity comes from. It's also…

— Mirah

As most doctors will tell you, cleansing is ridiculous. You know what's been around longer than that state-of-the-art juicer? Your kidneys. And…

— Sloane Crosley

As songwriters and artists we get a lot of attention and gratification when we write about the moments that have hurt us,…

— Victoria Monet

“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution.…

— George Bernard Shaw

For me there were only two ways on the precipice - either I have to fall in or I have to fall…

— B.K.S. Iyengar

Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. The medium doesn't matter. The intent does.

— Seth Godin

As artists, I think that one of the good qualities we have is that we're imaginative. We're resourceful. We like challenges.

— Meredith Monk

To approach the spiritual in art, one will make as little use as possible of reality, because reality is opposed to the…

— Piet Mondrian

I'm actually doing a show. from my shed. on the internet. but it won't be music or anything, it's more to do…

— Vince Clarke

A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.

— George Santayana

I guess that storytelling would be for me to keep making art that touches people in a way that nothing else can.

— Karla Souza

The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less.

— Albert Camus

I do feel a commitment to this art form and to my father's teaching, and I think the older I get I'm…

— Anoushka Shankar

Creativity in all forms of life, from arts to business to domestic situations, depends on our ability to recognize and explore gaps

— Itay Talgam

To open up the new, to look back on the old may bring forth like discoveries in the practice of art.

— Eudora Welty

Art—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out…

— Lawrence Durrell

You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

Art is about freedom of expression, and should not be molded to fit any propaganda or lofty ideal.

— Joyce Carol Oates

I don't think the arts would have been as meaningful to me if I hadn't grown up in Harlem.

— Ruby Dee

Art is how a culture records its life, how it poses questions for the next generation and how it will be remembered.

— Marsha Norman

It is a significant symbol that street art is gaining increased attention and credibility in the art world and that's a good…

— Invader

I enjoy so many different art forms; I don't just want to focus on acting. I love music. I love writing stories.…

— Brenton Thwaites

All great literature has an uncreeded and luminous theology behind it... Art [is] a form of active prayer.

— Melissa Pritchard

Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual…

— Charles Baudelaire

You have your own perceptions as an artist because you're put on this planet to create mystery, but you're put here to…

— Anthony Davis

I wanted to create art that fit the Pinterest interior aesthetic, because that is so of the internet age and my platform,…

— Caroline Calloway

I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to…

— Plato

Mixed martial arts has small windows of opportunity and there's always new faces coming through, so it's easy to forget you.

— Jimi Manuwa

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and…

— Louise Brooks