Art Quotes · Page 91

“Art Is Not A Mirror - It Is A Hammer.”

— John Grierson

Andy Warhol defined Pop Art.

— Jeffrey Deitch

“more to be a human being with”

— Gary D. Schmidt

I've always been huge into martial arts.

— Michael Steger

My knowledge of art ended at impressionism.

— Peggy Guggenheim

Art is only a way of expressing pain.

— John Lennon

Art is man added to Nature.

— Francis Bacon

I draw like other people bite their nails.

— Pablo Picasso

M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull.

— Oscar Wilde

The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A good art collection is emblematic of the people collecting it.

— David Furnish

Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.

— Walter Darby Bannard

“LIVING your life and NOT acting it is the true art.”

— Mykyta Isagulov

An artist's job is to articulate what might otherwise be incoherent.

— Nancy Spero

Religion is always a patron of the arts, but its taste is by no means impeccable.

— Aldous Huxley

TV artistes are far more professional and dedicated compared to film actors.

— Ranjeet

A still small voice spake unto me, 'Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

I sometimes just don't like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it…

— Jackie Chan

“Some bitch? She was my girlfriend for eight months. It's so ugly when girls call each other that word." "Oh, my god,…

— Melissa Albert

I've not met one person, even if they are not creative, who isn't dysfunctional. I guess artists are just a bit more…

— Karen Elson

Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.

— Eugene Delacroix

I find inspiration for my works of art in my studio and in the squared circle from all sorts of places.

— Jeff Hardy

“The worst that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.”

— Joanna Rakoff

Greek is doubtless the most perfect [language] that has been contrived by the art of man.

— Edward Gibbon

I was given a chance some time ago, and it changed my life forever. I want to be able to give the…

— DJ Snake

“The more people have time to experience the joys of creativity, the less they will be consumers, especially of mass-produced culture. I…

— Theodore Roszak

“And that is why I would propose that, in our teaching of the humanities, we should emphasize the enduring creations of the…

— Neil Postman

“If a painter, then, paints a picture of an ideally beautiful man, complete to the last detail, is he any the worse…

— Plato

When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is really saying…

— Anonymous

“An artistic image is one that ensures its own development, its historical viability. An image is a grain, a self-evolving retroactive organism.…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

There's no greatest moment in the arts. It's a life; it's a continuity thing. You can't have a great moment because it's…

— LeRoy Neiman

I would be concerned if one of my children were constantly watching nothing but horror films or indulging in gothic literature without…

— Scott Derrickson

Art is a form of consciousness.

— Susan Sontag

Life is short, the art long.

— Hippocrates

The arts are the signature of a nation.

— Joan Mondale

I am an artist and artists do not lie.

— Nagma

Art should not be an easy thing.

— Fred Armisen

But of works of art little can be said.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The arts are a major life nourishment.

— Kiran Ahluwalia

“Most artists are lefthanded”

— Adam Anderson