Art Quotes · Page 87

In art one idea is as good as another.

— Willem de Kooning

You know it's ART, when the check clears.

— Andy Warhol

War, the World's Only Hygiene

— Anonymous

Music is the perfect type of art.

— Oscar Wilde

The true artist can only labor con amore.

— Victor Hugo

“As an artist, motive means opportunity”

— Siren Waroe

If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

— Harry S. Truman

Words don't heal. Art heals!

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this.

— Leo Tolstoy

I am a brush, the car is my track and the artist my canvas

— Damon Hill

Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“I tried to push my body through his and completely disappear.”

— Jennifer Elisabeth

Often the art in New York is related to the buildings, to grandiose things.

— Christo

Art may varnish and gild, but it can do no more.

— Henry David Thoreau

Disco does work better with black artists or players. They just feel it more.

— Giorgio Moroder

Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.

— Georges Braque

The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point,…

— John Berryman

Part of being an artist is being willing to be shocked, being willing to be surprised, being willing to be hurt.

— Holly Near

“Art is sacred. Punk rock is freedom. Expression and right to express is vital. Anyone can be artistic.”

— Kurt Cobain

I love a lot of people in bands and people doing weird art stuff, but i will always forget someone and i…

— Brian Chippendale

Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings.

— Alan Moore

Art is contemplation of the world in a state of grace and imaginatively reflecting that subjective understanding.

— Hermann Hesse

The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches.

— Tony Kushner

It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.

— John Locke

Sometimes it's good to get mad, sometimes it clarifies where we stand. I think that art has the ability to challenge and…

— Laurel Nakadate

I do believe in an everyday sort of magic -- the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art…

— Charles de Lint

“The assertion that only sex is power and the arrogation of creativity to the masculine sex and the rendering of all creativity…

— Somer Brodribb

“Are [the arts and the sciences] really as distinct as we seem to assume? [...] Most universities will have distinct faculties of…

— Stephen Mumford

Strokes carry a message whether you will it or not. The stroke is just like the artist at the time he makes…

— Robert Henri

Recovering from suffering is not like recovering from a disease. Many people don’t come out healed; they come out different. They crash…

— David Brooks

I'm gonna make music, and I'm gonna capture every aspect of being a human being. That's really all I'm trying to do.…

— Mac Miller

Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or…

— Ezra Pound

Art transcends politics this weekend.

— Barbra Streisand

Generally, I move in the direction of art.

— Michael Keaton

Life isn't long enough for love and art.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art.

— Meryl Streep

I'm not a flamboyant artist.

— Rakim

Presume not that I am the thing I was.

— William Shakespeare

A work of art is a confession.

— Albert Camus

The artist should always be the student.

— Edgar Alwin Payne