Fine arts Quotes · Page 4

The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.

— Vincent Van Gogh

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means.

— William Faulkner

The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.

— Abraham Lincoln

The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.

— Thomas Carlyle

I'm a fine artist working in a commercial arena, so that's my cross to bear

— Joni Mitchell

If some of the greats had followed the traditional ways we would be missing so much fine art.

— Gene Black

But I think frustration is hilarious. One of my missions is to bring humor into fine art. It's sacred.

— Wayne White

Accreditation. The "doctorate of fine art." I've never heard something so stupid in my entire life.

— Lawrence Weiner

I define art as a work created by a human that has a unique point of view and discovers something that was…

— Signe Baumane

I graduated from college with a 3.92 GPA with a degree in computer programming and a BFA in fine arts and animation.…

— JWoww

We designers, we don't work in a vacuum. We need business people. We are not the fine artists we are often confused…

— Dieter Rams

Let us practice the fine art of making every work a priestly ministration. Let us believe that God is in all our…

— Anonymous

I take the horsemanship very seriously and I treat it with the same integrity that one would any of the fine arts.

— Buck Brannaman

I honestly always thought my Master's in Fine Arts would get me further in the acting world than knowing how to work…

— James Michael Tyler

A film carries six fine arts - it consists of architecture, painting, music, writing or literature, photography and performance. It's a conjecture…

— Gulzar

But if you're talking about fine art work, then I think you have to ask yourself some pretty deep questions about why…

— Leonard Nimoy

I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way. Oh my dear, I can’t be clever and stand-offish with you:…

— Vita Sackville-West

I've watched so many women, from Kathleen Hanna all the way up to Taylor Swift, whether they're pop artists or rock stars…

— Amanda Palmer

And the art was in every corner and wall... a Mural of the Century of Progress in Colombia South America is rich…

— Santiago Martinez Delgado

Some of my colleagues who are criticized today for lack of forthright principles-or who are looked upon with scorn as compromising "politicians"-are…

— John F. Kennedy

I identify first and foremost as a fine artist. Even the way that I put words together; this could be called painterly…

— Marissa Nadler

The very act of representation has been so thoroughly challenged in recent years by postmodern theories that it is impossible not to…

— Richard Misrach

I'm at this point in my career where I'm trying to step away from the realm of fine arts, because I think…

— Vik Muniz

A lot of people thought I got famous as a studio artist, then decided to cash in on it. But it actually…

— Shepard Fairey

“Our fine arts were developed, their types and uses were established, in times very different from the present, by men whose power…

— Paul Valéry

Far from affording artists continuous inspiration, mass-media sources for art have become a dead end. They have combined with the abstractness of…

— Robert Hughes

“But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends, have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have…

— John Adams

Art is for the elite because it has a very high price-point of entry. And when one is in that social strata,…

— Molly Crabapple

“The paradox of being a professional artist. How we spend our lives trying to express ourselves well, but we have nothing to…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“It's a combination of nature and nurture. Sometimes it's a part of teen rebellion, either to adopt or to refuse to adopt…

— William Bernhardt

I've been an artist forever. I started when I was in the third grade. I drew drawings of monsters and I sold…

— Tony Tasset

“Why don’t we approach literature like we approach music and the fine arts?”

— Hugh Howey

As a fine artist I was drawn to composition and technique. I would count the cuts.

— Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

It is a fine art because it strives for an ideal, not only in plastic but also in lyrical respect.

— August Bournonville

I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.

— Catherine Deneuve

When I graduated from high school, I got accepted to York University, Fine Arts film program.

— Mike Myers

I think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to continue.

— Joni Mitchell

My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater.

— Kanye West

There is a fine art to making enemies and it requires diligent cultivation. It's not as easy as it looks.

— Edward Abbey

I counted solely on the clarity of expression of my work to gain my ends.

— Henri Matisse