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Art Quotes by Anna Deavere Smith
- We who are in the arts are at the risk of being in a popularity contest rather than a profession. If that fact causes you…
- Art simply can’t be stopped.
- President Obama called for a 'we' nation in his Inauguration Address. Art convenes. It is not just inspirational. It is aspirational. It pricks the walls…
- They say that art should stand the test of time. Life lasts a limited amount of time. Mountains and trees and earth will outlive human…
- I think that art is supposed to be ahead of the times.
- Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you.
- Art should take what is complex and render it simply. It takes a lot of skill, human understanding, stamina, courage, energy, and heart to do…
- I think some of our most talented people are not going to pick the arts as a way that they're going to spend their lives.
More Art Quotes
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have… — Karen Armstrong
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't… — Arthur Ashe
- Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. — Isaac Asimov