Art Quotes

A gracefully effortless floating, flowing and flying are the essentials of the ballet’s image of man.

~ Ayn Rand

Dancing is to music what a beloved wife is to her husband. Both of them are so in love, you can't separate them.

~ Paul Bamikole

Growing up in NYC,The broken sidewalks, graffiti filled subways, and humid Laundromats, did not offer solace. I found solace in the strings of my violin, in my ballet slippers at the studio, and while gazing at frescoes in the halls of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It was always in the Arts that my soul was replenished.

~ Susan Anne Russell

When you step from the wings onto the stage you go from total blackness to a blinding hot glare. After a moment you adjust, but there is that moment. like being inside lightning.

~ Meg Howrey

Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.

~ Ted Shawn

... in art nothing is more secondary than the author's intentions.

~ Jorge Luis Borges

i want to never settle for anything less than my soul on paper.

~ Jonathan Culver

i want to bleed ink and shit prose.

~ Jonathan Culver

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Perhaps the only people with the right to look at images of suffering of this extreme order are those who could do something to alleviate it— say, the surgeons at the military hospital where the photograph was taken—or those who could learn from it. The rest of us are voyeurs, whether or not we mean to be.

~ Sontag

The job of art is not to store moments of experience but to explore environments that are otherwise invisible. Art is not a retrieval system of precious moments of past cultures. Art has a live, ongoing function. McLuhan CD-ROM

~ Marshall Mcluhan

Journalism is not a precise science, it's a crude art

~ Dan Rather

I'm an unabashed elitist. Everyone needs a good editor, and there is peril in worshiping amateurism and the unedited in science, art, and journalism.

~ K. Lee Lerner

Abolish music prejudices. Form opinions and love music for itself, not its genre, performer(s) or popularity status.

~ Abigail Biddinger

Every night I used to pray that I’d find my people, and finally I did on the open road.We had nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore, except to make our lives into a work of art.

~ Lana Del Rey

I guess the fact that they made something they could be proud of is more important than any prize ever could be. I can understand that. The beauty of the clothing itself is in the eye of the beholder. Judging art on a point system in the first place seems totally ridiculous! But since I grew up in such a competitive, point-awarding world, I wanted the grand prize more than anything. I wanted to be number one and get all the glory. Glory, huh... how stupid!

~ Ai Yazawa

Sit there and look pretty.

~ Hissa Alboot Alshehhi

The best creates, the rest follows

~ Richard Lee Juiche

Paris and Fashion. Books and Art. What would one be ... without the other?

~ Peggy Kopman-Owens

They blended religion and art and science because, at base, science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.

~ Ray Bradbury

There is a difference between obsessive perfectionism and taking time to create something that is the best you can offer. Knowing what needs to be better and stretching to improve yourself is what separates the mediocre from the marvelous.

~ Suzanna Reeves

Once all the blocks were on the quad, Rowena grew obsessed with arranging them perfectly. I didn’t care at this point and busied myself texting a message to Sydney on the Love Phone, letting her know that my art was a paltry thing compared to the brilliance of her beauty. She texted back: This is me rolling my eyes. To which I replied: I love you too.

~ Richelle Mead

Art has one purpose, that is to leave you changed. Love has one purpose, that is to create art.

~ Julieanne O'connor

wash the brush, just beats the devil out of it

~ Bob Ross

There are two characters in me: a doodler and a tuner. And the only thing that makes me go crazy is when they both fight for their turn.

~ Shawn Lukas

Galleries are frightening places, places of evaluation, of judgement.

~ Margaret Atwood

Your most important gear is your eye, heart and soul.

~ Marius Vieth

if you have the tools but do not have the visual concept, the tools do not work

~ Betty Poluk

Photography captures a moment in time. Art captures time in a moment.

~ Joyce Wycoff

I love women more on canvas than real life, for they seldom change on canvas!

~ Ramana Pemmaraju

There is the satisfaction of being able to look at the image without flinching. There is the pleasure of flinching.

~ Sontag

Photography is not a lens but eye, not a business but art

~ Farid F. Ibrahim

I am intrigued with scriptural mythology that tells us that God created a divine feminine presence to dwell amongst humanity. This concept has had a constant influence on the work. I have imagined her as ubiquitous, watchful, and often in motion. This work is, in effect, the photographic image of the invisible.

~ Leonard Nimoy

An art prodigy of the 21st century has yet to be crowned. Or have they?

~ Luhraw

The visual arts will one day be king. The pop stars and celebrities soon to be forgotten.

~ Luhraw

(...) photography opened up quite a little Pandora's box, kiddies. (...) Once we no longer had to depend on drawing and painting to record our existence — once they became an option — they mutated . . . into a form of expression. And Art for its own sake, God help us, was born.

~ Chip Kidd

God creates the beauty. My camera and I are a witness.

~ Mark Denman

Art is unpredictable.

~ Joe Papagoda

God creates the beauty. Through my camera, I am a witness.

~ Mark Denman

The camera basically is a license to explore.

~ Jerry N. Uelsmann