Art Quotes

"The temple of art is built in words"

"Acting is something I love to do. I love to perform and I love the art, the craft of it"

"We probably put about four or five comic books out a year and probably about two or three art books and various trade paperbacks - maybe four or five of those a year - and that's what we do now"

Glenn Danzig, Musician

"I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination"

Daphne Zuniga, Actress

"But I am a lover of all kinds of art. And I just can't stick to one thing. I guess I could if I made myself, but I'd always be looking the other way, for other things"

Andre Benjamin, Musician

"Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to make that cheque, nobody putting art in their albums any more"

Andre Benjamin, Musician

"How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?"

Polly Toynbee, Journalist

"I didn't have any real art training, but when I was about twelve nad thirteen, another boy and I went to a sign painter's house every Friday night and took lessons"

Rube Goldberg, Cartoonist

"Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your art is success, whether you make money from it or not"

Joe Murray, Artist

"But, when I had this feeling and started painting sacred art, as I had this feeling to do, then it come to me: my problem is I'll get a lot of criticism and another problem is my work's not good enough to sell"

Howard Finster, Artist

"Any excuse to live in New York and do art. Has to be one of the most rewarding experiences in the world"

Tommy Chong, Actor

"Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views"

Mary Schmich, Journalist

"Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars"

Nicholas Sparks, Author

"Opera is one of the most important art forms. It should be listened to and appreciated by everyone"

Luciano Pavarotti, Musician

"Right now I am preparing for another art exhibit in November in Palm Desert"

Dwayne Hickman, Actor

"There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too"

Karen Armstrong, Writer

"The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well"

Tony Snow, Journalist

"But where there is no art show, I would still be painting"

Tony Curtis, Actor

"London, thou art the flower of cities all!"

William Dunbar, Poet

"I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art"

Vincent D'Onofrio, Actor

"I've always wanted to be an animator. That's an ultimate art form, right there"

Jason Marsden, Actor

"I believe only in art and failure"

Jane Rule, Author

"Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics"

Lynn Swann, Athlete

"This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in art"

Robert Delaunay, Artist

"Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind"

Clive Bell, Critic

"A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind"

Clive Bell, Critic

"And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration"

Pam Grier, Actress

"Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate"

Mos Def, Musician

"Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology"

Edward Thorndike, Psychologist

"Well, I never studied design and I went to art school to study art, you know, sculpture and things like that, and ended up making things like sculpture and started making chairs and jewelry together and that's how I started"

Marc Newson, Designer

"African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations"

Mos Def, Musician

"Well I was always a hustler... I ran numbers; I wasn't a stick up kid, but I was a fence for them. I used to sell weed; and was kicked out of Music and Art for that"

Kurtis Blow, Musician

"It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal"

Clive Bell, Critic

"Country and western is ignored by the intellectuals. They don't look at it as an art form. They think it's just somebody sitting on his couch singing about his life"

Ricky Skaggs, Musician

"Because the stuff that they feed kids now, they'll have a bunch of idiots in the next millennium as far as art and culture is concerned"

Billy Higgins, Musician

"Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself"

Margaret Atwood, Novelist

"The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened"

Tom Wolfe, Journalist

"But don't call me an actor. I'm just a worker. I am an entertainer. Don't say that what I am doing is art"

Javier Bardem, Actor

"People who think about art as an investment are pathetic"

Walter Annenberg, Businessman

"I discovered the 7th art at home when I was kid, through Charlie Chaplin's movies and those of my father who shot documentaries. He was my biggest influence. So I took his camera and started shooting"

Lasse Hallstrom, Director

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