Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good. "
Barbra Streisand
Good
Art
Artist
Related Quotes:
" Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess? "
Ludwig van Beethoven
Art
Great
Her
" Insight is the first condition of Art. "
George Henry Lewes
Insight
Condition
Art
" Art is anything people do with distinction. "
Louis Dudek
Art
People
Distinction
" Great art picks up where nature ends. "
Marc Chagall
Great Art
Nature
Up
" Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see. "
Paul Klee
Us
Does
Art
" To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. "
Will Durant
Say
Communication
Half
" I haven't mastered the art of sitting and smiling. "
Ashley Wagner
" The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal. "
Pope Paul VI
Art
Life
Meaning
" Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth. "
Camille Paglia
West
Nature
Moment
" The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. "
William James
Knowing
Overlook
Wise
" I love art, being so close to the galleries, being by the water - and sunsets from the terrace. "
Edgardo Osorio
Close
Water
Sunsets
" The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute. "
Honore de Balzac
Art
Detail
Silent
" Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization. "
Lincoln Steffens
Along
Art
Civilization
" The world is a slightly better place for having improvisation in it than it was before. There's something about it that says something positive about the human spirit, that a bunch of people can get together and by following a few simple traffic rules can create art and can entertain an audience and can thrill and exalt each other. "
Del Close
People
Together
Art
" I can take any truth; just don't lie to me. "
Barbra Streisand
Truth
I Can
Just
" Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious. "
Jean Cocteau
Marriage
Unconscious
Conscious
" All the great works of art, the cathedrals - the Gothic cathedrals and the splendid Baroque churches - are a luminous sign of God, and thus are truly a manifestation, an epiphany of God. "
Pope Benedict XVI
Gothic
Epiphany
Art
" Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics. "
Victor Pinchuk
Freedom
Politics
Society
" I don't see any boundaries between any of the art forms. I think they all inter-relate completely. "
David Bowie
Boundaries
Art
I Think
" As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just art. If you give everybody a blank canvas and some paint, not everybody's picture is going to be exactly the same, but it's still art. I just do what I do. "
Jake Owen
Long
Believe
You
" Art school can be a wonderful place if you're trying to find your voice and your style and your taste. "
Abbi Jacobson
You
Place
School
" You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not. "
Octavia Spencer
Dreams
Live
Hope
" Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life. "
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Life
Like
Water
" Hip-hop is one of the most free art forms there is. There's so many sounds you can use, so many things you can bring in. You never know, man. I bet years ago people would've never said they would hear me with Rick Ross, and we did four classic songs together. "
John Legend
Art
Together
People
" Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus. "
David Hockney
Design
Bus
Art
" Errors are not in the art but in the artificers. "
Isaac Newton
Art
Errors
" I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough to think of myself as an artist - that there is both joy and beauty and illumination and communion between people to be achieved through the dissection of personality. "
Lorraine Hansberry
Art
Myself
Man
" It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray. "
Eddie Vedder
Pain
Art
Mix
" Mendelssohn I consider the first musician of the day; I doff my hat to him as my superior. He plays with everything, especially with the grouping of the instruments in the orchestra, but with such ease, delicacy and art, with such mastery throughout. "
Robert Schumann
Everything
Hat
He
" 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
Art
Opportunity
Music