Art Quotes on Creativity & Expression – Page 8 | GloryQuotes

If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.

Dean Acheson

Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.

Charles de Lint

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Leonardo da Vinci

To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.

Vladimir Nabokov

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Andre Maurois

Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist.

Edwin Louis Cole

Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.

Sol LeWitt

A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.

John Lothrop Motley

We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.

David Hockney

One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways.

Peter McWilliams

Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.

John Milius

Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.

Gavin Newsom

I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.

Karl Lagerfeld

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

Barry Commoner

Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.

Golda Meir

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

Andy Warhol

With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.

Norman Mailer

Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.

Mary Baker Eddy

I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art.

Sol LeWitt

I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.

Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

Muhammad Iqbal

Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.

Muhammad Iqbal

We work n the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.

Henry James

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

During the '70s I was interested in words and meaning as a way of making art.

Sol LeWitt

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.

Thomas A. Edison

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

And it's not only films, I'm pretty unaware of anything that's going on in popular culture right now.

Brad Bird

The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.

Don Marquis

You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.

Barbara Kruger

You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.

Charles Ives

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

Abraham Maslow

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

James Joyce

I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective.

Max Beckmann

The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving.

Johan Huizinga

Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.

Matthew Arnold

It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Wilson Mizner

Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.

Matthew Arnold

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

Jean Racine

When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.

Madeleine L'Engle

The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.

Eric Allin Cornell