Arts Quotes
Quotes about Arts
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- “I wasn't exposed to art as I was growing up, and can't recall the first time I saw a work of art. However, I remember ve...” — William S. Burroughs
- “I decided at 40 I was wasting entire chunks of my brain and didn't want to blow my one chance on Earth. I'm glad I made ...” — Douglas Coupland
- “With just one polka dot, nothing can be achieved. In the universe, there is the sun, the moon, the earth, and hundreds o...” — Yayoi Kusama
- “It'll be the Internet and piracy that will kill film. There's a philosophy that the Internet should be free, but the rea...” — Helen Mirren
- “In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the h...” — Carl Honore
- “There are so many awful things in this world, but I wanted readers to share with me the small, beautiful, enjoyable thin...” — Novala Takemoto
- “A secondhand wardrobe hand clothes doesn't make one an artist. Neither do a hair-trigger temper, melancholic nature, pro...” — David Rakoff
- “'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was ...” — Jerry Saltz
- “When you're a little kid, you just like music that makes you happy and is fun. As you get older, you reach college or yo...” — Patrick Stump
- “This is part of the involuntary bargain we make with the world just by being alive. We get to experiences the splendor o...” — Jeff Greenfield
- “Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for...” — Ray Bradbury
- “At this point in my life - age 24 - I have chosen a fairly strange path that not many are walking. I am a professional s...” — Sarah Kay
- “I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it ser...” — Eddie Vedder
- “Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I fe...” — Lady Gaga
- “I enjoy going out by myself... always have, always will. I don't have security guards, and, for the most part, I enjoy m...” — Vince Vaughn
- “A good mother remembers to serve fruit at breakfast, is always cheerful and never yells, manages not to project her own ...” — Ayelet Waldman
- “In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most suprem...” — Frank Ocean
- “The first piece of art that I ever bought-when I could afford it-was a Warhol sketch from the period when he was just ge...” — James Franco
- “Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the...” — Camille Paglia
- “Music is one of the noblest callings I can think of. It's the highest of all the art forms to me. For example, if my kid...” — Hugh Laurie
- “Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen ...” — Wynton Marsalis
- “Many a sin has sullied me in body and in soul because I did not restrain my thoughts nor guard my lips: nevertheless it ...” — Saint Ambrose
- “An artist never works under ideal conditions. If they existed, his work wouldn't exist, for the artist doesn't live in a...” — Andrei Tarkovsky
- “I don't know if One Direction will stand the test of time. I have a niece who goes crazy for them. But the only way to j...” — Andrea Bocelli
- “All I tell artists is, 'Do what you love. Never let anybody talk you into changing what your musical idea is just to try...” — Gloria Estefan
- “'Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era,' the Whitney Museum's 40th-anniversary trip down counterculture memory lane...” — Jerry Saltz
- “It is not up to me whether I win or lose. Ultimately, this might not be my day. And it is that philosophy towards sports...” — Apolo Ohno
- “When you start a company, it's more an art than a science because it's totally unknown. Instead of solving high-profile ...” — Brian Chesky
- “If you have good songs and a real desire to make music, the next thing to do, instead of approach record companies, is t...” — James Blunt
- “One thing about being a stand-up is it's a one-man show. You gotta do everything. You're the producer, writer, director,...” — Nick Cannon
- “In the 1960s when the recording studio suddenly really took off as a tool, it was the kids from art school who knew how ...” — Brian Eno
- “Medical training taught me the art of breaking down the complex maze of stories, symbols and rituals into clear systems....” — Devdutt Pattanaik
- “The roles of art, morality, religion, political faith, science itself are not to repair organic exhaustion nor to provid...” — Emile Durkheim
- “There will be very few occasions when you are absolutely certain about anything. You will consistently be called upon to...” — Andy Stanley
- “The beauty of a finely worked object points to the beauty of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the craftsmanship points t...” — Said Nursi
- “All I know is movies; I went to school, but movies are my reference point for everything. I figured I'd have to P.A. or ...” — Jordan Ladd
- “Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly unders...” — Joel Osteen
- “When money and hype recede from the art world, one thing I won't miss will be what curator Francesco Bonami calls the 'E...” — Jerry Saltz
- “Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want p...” — Temple Grandin
- “Technology is a compulsive and addictive way to live. Verbal communication cannot be lost because of a lack of skill. Th...” — Rick Pitino
- “When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone - it's possible. But creatively, it's more like pai...” — Ben Harper
- “I came up with the term 'mindfreak' because I didn't like the word 'magician.' I felt like I wanted to coin a term that ...” — Criss Angel
- “For thousands of years, human beings have been obsessed with beauty, truth, love, honor, altruism, courage, social relat...” — Deepak Chopra
- “My art is not limited to the songs I create but also to the reaction it creates. I like to sit back and look at the whol...” — Marilyn Manson
- “Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courag...” — Ashton Kutcher
- “I collect art. I just recently bought two gorgeous photographs of Marilyn Monroe by international photographer Eve Arnol...” — Melanie Brown
- “Let's face it: professing a deep interest in movies, the absolutely dominant global art form of the last century, is at ...” — David Rakoff
- “I used to love to draw. I didn't want to go to art class because I felt that would be too corny when I was young, but ar...” — Ice Cube
- “There was a manifesto in the late '60s/early '70s, and it basically laid out what 'black art' was and that it should emb...” — Kara Walker
- “My university degree is in art and, yes, I do a lot of drawing for all my books. I have a big drafting table set up in a...” — Jude Deveraux