Top 100 Art For Me Quotes
#1. Writing is a performance art for me. They're very closely aligned, writing and performing. But I'm a writer, not a performer.
Clive James
#2. I am not very comfortable about dancing at weddings and New Year parties. Maybe it's because of the way I have been brought up; I wouldn't want my family to feel that cringe moment. Dance is an art for me.
Deepika Padukone
#3. To make people free is the aim of art, therefore art for me is the science of freedom.
Joseph Beuys
#4. Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it.
Andy Goldsworthy
#6. And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when you rush through you will not miss the moment which you might have had, or might still have.
Jerzy Kosinski
#7. Songwriting's never been a natural art for me; it's always been a bit of a struggle.
Rod Stewart
#8. "Contemporary art" for me is a kind of historical term that describes the 40 years between the Berlin Wall going up and then coming down. I'm not sure who will come up with a better term to describe art, but I think contemporary art is actually done for.
Liam Gillick
#9. A violent scene is art, as much as a sex scene is art. For me, all the scenes were a challenge.
Adele Exarchopoulos
#10. I'm making the art for me first. I'm making it because these are the pictures I want to see. I'm making pictures that don't yet exist.
Ryan McGinley
#11. Art for me is like breathing. When I stop breathing, what happens?
Yoko Ono
#12. Art for me is like breathing.
Yoko Ono
#13. I love to design. I am a commercial fashion designer. I always design jackets with two sleeves. I don't design jackets with three sleeves, or the layers and layers come off like little dolls from Russia. Fashion for me is a creative endeavor, but it is not art for me.
Tom Ford
#14. Poetry is a vocal art for me - but not necessarily a performative one. It might be reading to oneself or recalling some lines by memory.
Robert Pinsky
#15. The role of art for me is the visualization of attitude, of the human attitude towards life, towards the world.
Josef Albers
#16. Making art for me is not fun in the sense of la, la, la, la, but it's something that I find very absorbing and very satisfying.
Nell Irvin Painter
#18. Being able to tell one from start to finish, and making that puzzle come together at the end. That's the art for me.
Kendrick Lamar
#19. Wearing hats has become like fine art for me.
Tina Brown
#20. The thing about art for me is that you can go on theorising your work forever, because it's open to interpretation.
Takeshi Kitano
#21. I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong.
Lucian Freud
#22. Grab a guitar, put some kind of strings on it, a banjo string, then a violin string, then a guitar string, tune it any way you want, and make some noise, and see what you get. And work on it until you get something that you think is interesting. That's all there is to art for me.
Buffy Sainte-Marie
#23. Art for me ... is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.
Emile Zola
#24. I figured out that art would be the perfect place for me because what's encouraged is the invention of languages.
David Altmejd
#25. Our Father Who Art in Heaven gathered more meaning for me as my own father joined the Maker when I was still in school.
Andy Paula
#27. Art was a way for me to express myself and for me to also escape because it was tough growing up as a child. We didn't have a lot of money. I was always creating. I was writing stories. I was doing comic books. I made my own universe.
Michelle Phan
#28. I didn't set out to do something different so much as do something that interested me. I wasn't trying to be avant-garde - that's being fashionable. You don't set out to revolutionize art, you make statements for yourself.
Arnold Newman
#29. I feel like there's a space of personal freedom for me where my art-making happens. When I go to that space, I'm completely in the world of possibility.
Laura Owens
#30. If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.
Damian Loeb
#31. Cars for me are like a piece of art.
Afrojack
#32. Acting for me is not a business, it's about trying to make pieces of art that I believe that I feel proud of. And it's the journey of that.
Nicole Kidman
#33. For me, acting is about the art of it and it's about being on a film set and doing your thing, painting a blank canvas.
Shailene Woodley
#34. Design is not really a way for me to express myself. Design is a product that we produce for a client.
Peleg Top
#35. All the art for Tool is done by the me and the band.
Adam Jones
#36. God, of thy goodness, give me Thyself; for Thou art enough for me, and I can ask for nothing less that can be full honor to Thee. And if I ask anything that is less, ever Shall I be in want, for only in Thee have I all.
Julian Of Norwich
#37. I'm going to just sit down for a couple of weeks and do nothing but read who-dunnits and Art books. I feel my work is getting a bit dull and mechanical and this proposed resting should work up some enthusiasm in me.
E. J. Hughes
#38. For me with art and all that stuff - I like abstraction. I like contortion. I mean, it's still truth. But it's truth through the center of the individual. It doesn't necessarily mean that it's fallacies or falsehoods. It just happens to be one perception of what's happening.
Q-Tip
#39. [On gay men:] Let me say, a more artistic, appreciative group of people for the arts does not exist ... They are more knowledgeable, more loving of the arts. They make the average male look stupid.
Bette Davis
#40. For me art is a continuous discovery into reality, an exploration of visual data which has been going on for centuries, each artist contributing to the next generation's advancement. I wanted to go a step further and extend the boundaries.
Audrey Flack
#41. Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
John Donne
#42. I'd rather do anything than make commercial art. I didn't go to school for art. Making art has certain advantages for me but they would never be in commercial direction.
Raymond Pettibon
#43. Inspire me with love for my art and for thy creatures. In the sufferer let me see only the human being.
Maimonides
#44. Others may do as they please, but as for me,' he concluded ferociously, 'I shall never disclose to anybody that an acrobat, a trained bear of the magazines, a juggler of comic paragraphs, is not a priceless pearl of art and philosophy.
Stephen Crane
#45. You know a trillion times more about art than me. But I've learned that it isn't necessary to know all that much. You just make what you wanna see, right? It's a game, right? It's like being paid for dreaming.
Tom Robbins
#46. I see videomaking as an art - it's not a process for me.
Michelle Phan
#47. Whatever I was writing at the time, I knew there was no market for it and never would be, because there's never a market for true art, so my main concern was always to have a job that didn't require me to write or think.
Nell Zink
#48. I like "Julie Gold's song "From a Distance". Her song reminds me of the world as seen through an observer's eye. Seen from a distance, we are people in the same band playing music for everyone. We are artists who play the most beautiful instruments in the world - life.
Ilchi Lee
#49. Who's the artist?"
"My favorite." She pauses. "Unknown." Edydie sits cross-legged on the couch. "There is something so pure about an artist creating something for the sheer joy of it, then sharing it with people and claiming no credit. To me that's the height of romance.
Adriana Trigiani
#50. Strolling on the plateau of life, desperate for the mountain, I never thought that I would get this far. It's only art that has carried me through, given me faith in my own existence. But now I am approaching a point in my life where I desire more ...
Tracey Emin
#51. Science for me is very close to art. Scientific discovery is an irrational act. It's an intuition which turns out to be reality at the end of it-and I see no difference between a scientist developing a marvellous discovery and an artist making a painting.
Carlo Rubbia
#52. When I was a kid, a book I read advised young artist to be themselves. That decided it for me. I was a corny kind of guy, so I went in for corn.
Walt Disney
#53. It's not the scar and it's abso-freakin-lutely not you."
I dropped my hand. "Yeah, right." I sagged against him a little. For being as little as he is, Frankie's really solid. "It's never me."
I felt his sigh against my shoulder blades.
Melissa Jensen
#54. I do not know anything about Art with a capital A. What I do know about is my art. Because it concerns me. I do not speak for others. So I do not speak for things which profess to speak for others. My art, however, speaks for me. It lights my way.
Mark Z. Danielewski
#55. I don't think music is the first thing I turn to. For me, I think visual art is more the thing. Sometimes when I've been doing music for a while, I can't really take any more in.
Bat For Lashes
#56. Writing for me is the hardest thing in the world, but also a thing which, once completed, is the most satisfying ... I am no prodigy but, Fate willing, I think I can produce art.
William Styron
#57. Up until the last minute, it was art and drawing for me. That was the first real and natural thing I thought I was good at and loved to do. But I developed a similar kind of love for music.
James Bay
#58. If art doesn't require an audience, can an intimate conversation be a work of art? Can a thought be a work of art? Maybe. I don't know. These questions are completely hypothetical for me, because I love interacting with audiences. I want my poems to be heard.
James Arthur
#59. In Holland, things were pretty stale for me. Even though there were a lot of good influences and a certain openness to music and art and literature, I just wanted to go somewhere less familiar - somewhere bigger.
Ari Marcopoulos
#60. My parents taught me everything and set me up for life. I owe to them all the things I'm passionate about: music, art, the people I love, my career and family life, the fact that I have children and the way that I raise them.
Olivia Williams
#61. I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a subject which possessed me, a model which inspired me, a predecessor who attracted me, until at length, after I had molded it
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#62. For me, there has always been a disconnect with the sort of elitist structure of the high-art world - and my distaste for that is at odds with my feeling that art should aspire to do great things.
Shepard Fairey
#63. I feel like at the end of the day, as entertaining as movies are, when you're part of them in a way, it's this beautiful art form and that's what it feels like for me. I'm not a painter, but I can express myself visually in a way that allows me to artistically create.
Shailene Woodley
#64. Botvinnik's right! When he says such things, then he's right. Usually, I prefer not to study chess but to play it. For me chess is more an art than a science. It's been said that Alekhine and I played similar chess, except that he studied more. Yes, perhaps, but I have to say that he played, too.
Mikhail Tal
#65. I finally figured out how hard the battle between your love for me and your love for art, your future, and your career must've been. It just hurts to know art won, is all." ~Gage
Shanora Williams
#66. I'm inspired by throwing out any darkness that is inside of me. For me, art cures.
Jordi Molla
#67. What's my dilemma here? Am I making entertainment or am I making art? What am I saying? At the end of the day, cinema is entertainment for millions of people, but for me it's expression.
Paddy Considine
#68. For me, art is about learning and about living with people. It's alive.
Miuccia Prada
#69. There are people who claim to be instinctive cooks, who never follow recipes or weigh anything at all. All I can say is they're not very fussy about what they eat. For me, cooking is an exact art and not some casual game.
Delia Smith
#70. Clothing is ... an exercise in memory. It makes me explore the past: how did I feel when I wore that. They are like signposts in the search for the past.
Louise Bourgeois
#71. The art of making True promises within ones ownself is termed as Will (Sankalp) ... for beginners (like me) it is a tough learning and for siddhas; they just become that way ... effortlessly they sail ...
Dinesh Kumar
#72. 1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and the various honors mean a great deal to me, most of all for the reason that they would mean a great deal to my parents too.
Leon Askin
#73. I will have no man work for me who has not the capacity to become a partner.
James Cash Penney
#74. I got a book token for Christmas and exchanged it for a book called A History of Art, and that book (which I still have-battered and falling to pieces) became more precious to me than any Bible.
Philip Pullman
#75. For me, art is not 'brooding.' It comes from someplace that is more fun and that has a kind of electricity to it.
Rachel Kushner
#76. I am always looking for ideas, whether it is in art on the street or in my world travels. It comes to me randomly and unexpectedly.
Colleen Atwood
#77. I thought I was going to be a ballet dancer for awhile there. I had a good teacher at Interlochen, this arts' academy in Michigan, who taught me the importance of storytelling, and I really responded to that. It seemed like a long shot, but I always play the long odds.
Benjamin Walker
#78. I have touched with a sense of art some people-they felt the love and the life. Can you offer me anything to compare to that joy for an artist?
Mary Cassatt
#80. Mechanical Animals for me documents the repair of my emotions, the repair of my soul, and this record does deal with God in a different way. It deals with me finding God in art, and in music. I think there's more spirituality in art than you could find in a church
Marilyn Manson
#81. I've started doing book reviews for Barnes & Noble! They saw that I did a lot of book reviews on the site, and they figured that it might not be a bad thing if they got me to do some for them as well. I gave them five categories I'd be interested in reviewing, from art to fiction to music.
David Bowie
#82. I get to sing and act and write and create and produce for a living and share art with people, and I feel like a piece of that is in honor of those who came before me.
Aaron Lazar
#83. I went to Glenalmond and got the piss taken out of me for my Glasgow accent. Then I spent five years at this very posh school, came out sounding like Prince Charles, which you have to do in order to survive, and then I got called Lord Fauntleroy for the first six months at art school.
Robbie Coltraine
#84. For me, being an artist with a high profile is a good thing for art.
Tracey Emin
#85. For me, running is a lifestyle and an art. I'm more interested in the magic of it than the mechanics.
Lorraine Moller
#86. The drive, the ambition, the art; it all comes to me when I close my eyes and think about the sacrifices my Mom made for me.
Forrest Curran
#87. Art was always for me an escape and a way to relate to the world around me.
Nic Pizzolatto
#88. Nature meant for me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit.
John Dryden
#89. I love to draw, so I really want to go and study art. I've never done things for me. I've always done things for my career or for my family.
Milla Jovovich
#90. I'm from a very violent city. I'm from New Orleans, Louisiana, and it's good to see me be able to express my art, have a good opportunity for my life, make history and say something, without being violent.
Jason Mitchell
#91. About 1998, when 'Wide World of Sports' and the 'Footy Show' came to an end for me, I couldn't type. When I started architecture, it was a very aesthetic, creative, an almost art process, where lettering and thick line were how you expressed yourself on the paper.
Max Walker
#92. This is something essential to art: reception is never its goal. What counts for me is that my work provides material to reflect upon. Reflection is an activity.
Thomas Hirschhorn
#93. But we go out as a band because we enjoy each others company, first of all. And its the payoff for me, to go out and play my art and still play guitar, which is my life.
Peter Frampton
#94. I still have the art projects my kids made for me 20 years ago. I cherish them, crude and silly as some of them may be.
Emilio Estevez
#95. Art doesn't feed me or fill the void when I am not working. If I haven't worked for six months, I can't paint.
Rod Taylor
#96. I'd have to say that the things that mean the most to me are the examples of original comic art that I'm able to look at every day, most of them either by notable friends and/or for projects that I've worked on.
Chip Kidd
#97. For me, the arts are just an endless source of intelligence, brilliance, imagination, and originality.
Gail Levin
#98. For me, art really starts with acceptance, self trust. Wherever you come to with art, it's perfect. You don't have to come with anything. What you bring to something is the art. That's where it's found. It's found within you.
Jeff Koons
#99. Beauty in art is truth bathed in an impression received from nature. I am struck upon seeing a certain place. While I strive for conscientious imitation, I yet never for an instant lose the emotion that has taken hold of me.
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
#100. I'm going to teach you the art of distinguishing between day and night. Always look at a window, and failing that look into the eyes of a man. If you see a face, any face, then you can be sure that night has succeeded day. For, believe me, night has a face." Then,
Elie Wiesel
