Art Quotes

It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art.

~ Pauline Kael

Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.

~ Tony Kushner

Patience is the art of hoping.

~ Luc De Clapiers

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.

~ John Ortberg

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

~ Damien Hirst

No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved ones - if existence is filled with art, music and literature, life will be fulfilling, a joy.

~ Karen Decrow

Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.

~ Boris Pasternak

'Garage Magazine' has a strong track record of promoting diversity and racial and gender equality in the worlds of art and fashion and will continue in our mission to stir positive debate on these and other issues.

~ Dasha Zhukova

You got to fight for quality art and equality and all the things that we're fighting for, the things we believe in. Choice and preference and all those things that we support. We don't want to give up that fight. You got to keep doing it.

~ Christopher Cross

'Rookie' is not your guide to Being a Teen. It is, quite simply, a bunch of writing and art we like and believe in.

~ Tavi Gevinson

When I was a teen, I thought I would have to choose between my writing or my music or my art, but it turns out it's a difficult juggling game but I can do all of them.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

Sometimes, being different feels a lot like being alone. But with that being said, being true to that and being true to my standards and my way of doing things in my art and my music, everything that has made me feel very different... in the end, it has made me the happiest.

~ Lindsey Stirling

I will never forget experiencing Venice for the first time. It feels like you are transported to another time - the art, music, food and pure romance in the air is like no other place.

~ Elizabeth Berkley

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

~ Martin Luther

Music is an expression of individuality; it's how you see the world. All art is, for that matter. You take how you experience the world, interpret it, and send it out there - express it - whether it's sculpture, dance or singing.

~ David Sanborn

I feel like skateboarding is as much of a sport as a lifestyle, and an art form, so there's so much that that transcends in terms of music, fashion, and entertainment.

~ Tony Hawk

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

~ Charlie Parker

I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.

~ Salma Hayek

Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.

~ Diane Paulus

The Internet is both great and terrible. As a source of information, a tool for delivering music and art, it's great. But spamming ads and piracy of music is terrible. It's stealing.

~ Gary Wright

I'm inspired by artists and musicians. There are so many wonderful and talented people in the world. I love discovering new music, new writers, or new art.

~ Alicia Keys

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

~ Walter Pater

Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire - but oratory rules. The orator dominates those who hear him, convinces their reason, controls their judgment, compels their action. For the time being, he is master.

~ David Josiah Brewer

I love all kinds of art. I mean, I love sketching and acting and music.

~ Amandla Stenberg

What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.

~ Fernand Leger

There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.

~ Duke Ellington

I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it's really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it's all art.

~ Ice Cube

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

~ Herbie Hancock

Obviously, the cinematography of films is art, just as a still shot can be art. If I'm watching a Wes Anderson movie, the colour palettes alone, and the way they're painted, could be art. With music, you're a little bit limited, of course, because it's only audio.

~ Frank Ocean

If you took away all pain, if everyone lived forever, everything would be bland, flat and boring; there would be no reason for art, music, newspapers, love because we would all be in a mono state of happiness.

~ Matt Haig

One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.

~ Thom Yorke

I like music because it's the only invisible art form.

~ Sean Lennon

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

~ Walter Savage Landor

There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.

~ Jim Davis

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

~ W. H. Auden

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.

~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel

My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.

~ Jimi Hendrix

To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.

~ David Mccullough

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

~ Kanye West