Art Artwork Quotes

#1. I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.

Paloma Faith

#2. Herman Cain was unaware that China is a nuclear power. And I said to myself, 'Hey, Herman, how about making an unwanted advance on a history book?'

David Letterman

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

Damien Hirst

#4. I think making a movie is like drawing or creating an art piece. The artwork reflects part of your personality, but not all.

Tony Jaa

#5. Merz art strives for immediate expression by shortening the path from intuition to visual manifestation of the artwork ... they will receive my new work als they always have when something new presents itself: with indignation and screams of scorn.

Kurt Schwitters

#6. Emotions had welled close to the surface, and she thought her heart had never felt so full as it did standing next to the defiled grave of a whore while lunatics sang the national anthem.

Mindy McGinnis

#7. It is interesting to ask why people who come to view art suddenly posture themselves as full of righteousness. It's as if my artwork suddenly lends a higher moral ground to everyone else in the Thai art world.

Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

#8. One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance.

Whitfield Diffie

#9. It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than the artwork itself.

Chuck Palahniuk

#10. I think sometimes in artwork or writing or music, you discover something that just needs to be created. It's not even something that you want to create... You're just pulled into it like an instrument. Like you're part of a bigger plan.

Danika Stone

#11. 30And Mephibosheth said to the king, Oh, let him take it all, since my lord the king has come safely home.

Anonymous

#12. My wife was the first art collector in the family, and I didn't become interested until around 1973. The first important artwork we bought was a Van Gogh drawing of two peasant houses in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer.

Eli Broad

#13. Good angels are fallible ... they sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies.

Anatole France

#14. I can hear then say, "You're welcome, Will."
When I thanked them for sending you from heaven.

Colleen Hoover

#15. Just stop worrying about it," she said quietly. "Just let the stone be what it wants to be. You can't control everything, you know.

Danika Stone

#16. Although my everyday artwork is tattoo oriented, I definitely do not try to limit my art or art mediums.

William Webb

#17. yes, i have dated Salvador Dali guy when i was a high school girl. he was a great lover. but i had to dump him because he stole my inspiration of bent clock*~* .... who cares...

Hiroko Sakai

#18. The real art is in the street, is making the artwork, and for that you have to involve people. The action is actually the artwork.

JR

#19. I actually like doing commercials. I don't like doing them to the exclusion of everything else, but I like doing them. The 30-second format is very hard. I sometimes call it American Haiku. And I think some of the commercials I've done are not so bad.

Errol Morris

#20. After I see a painting, I go into a room, I close my eyes and I slowly escape into the beauty of the painting. I reflect on the painting, the nuances of the artwork, it's theme, mood and highlights -until the magic of the painting flashes before me.

Srinidhi.R

#21. The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

Elbert Hubbard

#22. My artwork isn't evolving, it's deconstructing, and I don't know why.

Neal Shusterman

#23. The advantage of having an artistic tradition is that the younger artist could see an organic link between the real life of one's country and its art work which is a sublimation of that life.

Kuo Pao Kun

#24. My definition of art is whatever an artist calls art. Us speaking could be an artwork, us sitting in the near-dark in your kitchen beside the dirty dishes and smoking, me thinking of what to say next.

Matthew Brannon

#25. Those who have finished by making all others think with them, have usually been those who began by daring to think with themselves.

Charles Caleb Colton

#26. From the very early stage when I started doing performance art in the '70s, the general attitude - not just me, but also my colleagues - was that there should not be any documentation, that the performance itself is artwork and there should be no documentation.

Marina Abramovic

#27. How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?

Lou Reed

#28. In life learn art, in the artwork learn life. If you see the one correctly you see the other also.

Friedrich Holderlin

#29. Let your air be that of a winner, a man who is resolved to make his way in the world, to make himself stand for something.

Orison Swett Marden

#30. My writing is consistently influenced by everything I watched and listened to growing up, so it's just this crazy collage of everything.

Michael Giacchino

#31. I was really into artwork in high school and my art teacher made it clear to me that it's not really a career. She insisted that if I wanted to make a living this way, I would have to find a career that might actually reward me for the artwork.

Jack Larson

#32. The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It's unbelievable. The film critics don't know my artwork and the art world doesn't know my films.

Agnes Varda

#33. Artwork is not like a commercial business; there is no such thing as a schedule for art. You can't hurry art.

Michael Heizer

#34. Impressive, isn't it?" Divan says with pride. "I purchased it from a Brazilian artist, who has apparently made a career working in flesh. He claims his artwork is to protest unwinding, but I ask you, how much of a protest can it be if he uses the unwound for his art?

Neal Shusterman

#35. Certainly a painting can be reductionistically described by its physical properties only: its shape, the paint, the design, and so forth. But every artwork that exists is both an individual thing, a whole unto itself, and simultaneously a part of the matrix of forces that brought it into being.

Alex Grey

#36. Being in the present moment, one can step outside the mechanical train of life, and this is where the inner revolution begins.

Belsebuub

#37. There is much to be said for the artwork that answers horror by rejecting or transcending it.

Alex Ross

#38. It's wonderful to see art in a museum, but it is institutionalised. I don't like the idea of the artwork as something that requires special conditions. I would like it to be universal.

Antony Gormley

#39. I haven't made art about Israel. There's a covert subtext of Jewish identity in my artwork.

Jill Soloway

#40. Never look back. The past is done. The future is a blank canvas. Work on creating a masterpiece. Only you have the power to make your painting beautiful.

Suzy Kassem

#41. Practicing art is a meditation; an artwork is an insight.

William Ash