Like Art Quotes

#1. Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.

Gregory Bateson

#2. I mean, the type of art that I enjoy is art that - I enjoy a very broad spectrum, but I especially like art that leaves me a little confused and uncertain as to what just happened.

Reggie Watts

#3. As Oscar Wilde once wrote, "Morality, like art, means drawing a line somewhere." The question is: where is the line?

Dan Ariely

#4. Like art, religion is an imaginative and creative effort to find a meaning and value in human life.

Karen Armstrong

#5. Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.

Jacob Bronowski

#6. Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

Daniel Bell

#7. Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

Gloria Steinem

#8. Like Art, Tea has its periods and its schools. Its evolution may be roughly divided into three main stages: the Boiled Tea, the Whipped Tea, and the Steeped Tea.

Okakura Kakuzo

#9. Ask one hundred people to explain love. And you'll get one hundred different answers. Because love is like art, it's subjective. Fluid. Ever-changing. Evolving. Case

Kim Holden

#10. Science, like art, religion, political theory, or psychoanalysis - is work that holds out the promise of philosophic understanding, excites in us the belief that we can 'make sense of it all.

Vivian Gornick

#11. My favorite kind of musical experience is to feel afterward that your heart is filled up and transformed, like it is pumping a whole new kind of blood into your veins. This is what it is to be a fan: curious, open, desiring for connection, to feel like art has chosen you, claimed you as its witness.

Carrie Brownstein

#12. But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and affect where before there was none, to give rhythmic variations, highs and lows to a landscape that was previously flat.

Molly Haskell

#13. I'm seeing too many kids where they get fixated on their own autism. I'd rather have them get fixated that they like programming computers or they like art or they want to sing in the church choir or they want to train dogs, you know, something that they can turn into a career.

Temple Grandin

#14. Nature is beautiful because it looks like Art; and Art can only be called beautiful if we are conscious of it as Art while yet it looks like Nature.

Immanuel Kant

#15. If it looks like art, chances are it's somebody else's art.

Chuck Close

#16. If you look at the requirements for just one piece, like art, from one generation of games to the next, it will change radically. You need people who are adaptable because the thing that makes you the best in the world in one generation of games is going to be totally useless in the next.

Gabe Newell

#17. I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.

Jack Nicholson

#18. I like science and I love gym. Oh, and I like art, but I'm really bad at it. I'm just a terrible drawer. I can't draw a circle. Even with a ruler, I can't draw a straight line.

Daniel Radcliffe

#19. If you want to help people, if you care, go to the cities. The city is where the pain is the greatest - and the cities are a hell of a lot of fun if you like art, movies and plays.

Frederick Lenz

#20. Sex, like art, can unsettle a soul, can grind a heart in a mortar. Sex, like literature, can sneak the other within one's wall, even if for only a moment, a moment before one immures oneself again.

Rabih Alameddine

#21. The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but the laying down of being. Philosophy is not the reflection of a pre-existing truth, but, like art, the act of bringing truth into being.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

#22. If artists would explain more, people would like art more. You realize that?

Kurt Vonnegut

#23. I knew a girl and she felt like art.
Sometimes colorful, sometimes dull,
Sometimes with bright, hopeful eyes,
Sometimes only black and white,
But she was always a piece of exquisite art.

Melanie Sargsian

#24. You're free to do anything you want with your company. It's more like art. You don't have to follow any norms. It's an expression of how you feel the world should be. When you make a company, that's your little place to make your own little utopia.

Derek Sivers

#25. Life is like art - it is all about interpretation.

Robert Holden

#26. In college I had to major in something, so I was like, "Okay I like art history, so I will major in that." I never really had any ambitions to work in museums or anything, though.

Walter Martin

#27. I love putting the music together. It's like art.

Erykah Badu

#28. I've got a man might do. No good for me, doesn't care for a flutter, and doesn't like Art either. But he has Proust in his overcoat pocket. Come to think of it, I suppose he reads it for the dirt, so no good for you, cancel what I said.

Doris Lessing

#29. I hated art as a kid. I didn't even like art class. I didn't like to draw. I would make my dad do all the drawings because I hated it so much.

Wade Guyton

#30. When I look at the 'Rocky Balboa' film when I played the undisputed heavyweight champion, I feel like art is going to imitate life. I played the champ in a movie and I'm going to become the champ in reality.

Antonio Tarver

#31. I love prints of skulls and bones and have some taxidermy - a crow and a rabbit - to remind me of home. I like art and have a big portrait of Bjork.

Ellie Goulding

#32. The music is a personal expression, like art. It is something that you like doing that comes from within, and is an expression that comes from God. That is why artists are beautiful and why people who copy are not really artistic.

Michael Schenker

#33. I experimented with fashion as it being more like art, allowing what I wore to express what I was feeling on the inside. Androgyny, rock culture, and grunge - they definitely had an effect on the things that made me feel cool and comfortable.

Ruby Rose

#34. Keep in mind that books, like art museums, are not always geared to the desires of the reader.

Tyler Cowen

#35. Food - like art, like music - brings people together, it's true. It begins, though, with a private experience, a single person stirred, moved, and wanting company in that altered stated. So we say, "You have to taste this." We say, "Please, take a bite.

Jessica Fechtor

#36. Reading and analyzing what you are reading, why you like this or don't like that, can only make you a better writer. So reading is a must! Just like art students study the masters, we too should study and learn from those we adore and/or aspire to be like.

Darynda Jones

#37. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice;

Rainbow Rowell

#38. I don't like fashion. I don't like art. I do like smashing up expensive things.

Wendy O. Williams

#39. I have many creative outlets. I sing, I like music, I like art, I paint, I draw. I like buying art. I read a lot, too. I love books. And I'm working on a clothing line, too.

Evan Ross

#40. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something. Eleanor

Rainbow Rowell

#41. Sex is like art: if you know what you're doing, you don't know what you're doing.

Hanif Kureishi

#42. Tell me about how no one looks at you like art so you have learnt to treat yourself like a masterpiece.

Darshana Suresh

#43. Sometimes I feel like art is supposed to mirror life, but strangely it's as if art is trying to catch up to life, to a certain extent.

Tracee Ellis Ross

#44. Dior Couture is like art - they are the art pieces of a fashion house. Each piece is unique and made by hand.

Patrick Demarchelier

#45. Both our dishes looked more like art when they arrived. "I hate to eat it; it's so beautiful." "I have the opposite problem. It's so beautiful; I can't wait to eat it." His smirk told me his comment had nothing to do with his fancy looking dinner. I

Vi Keeland

#46. Roecker sure is a romantic about certain things, like art and music, though you might not know it from watching Live Freaky! Die Freaky!, his claymation musical retelling of the Helter Skelter Charlie Manson saga.

John Roecker

#47. I love art because I feel that it's evidence of the great shared universal power. I like art that feels real, that cuts the bullshit.

Ottessa Moshfegh

#48. Every human being in this world is interested in certain things. Everybody has a hobby. Some people like art; I know nothing about it. Some people like books, some people like fishing, some people like music. I like to look at cars.

Bikram Choudhury

#49. A wide-angle view of sails sparkling white against a cobalt sky as light dances, silver on the water. Like art, it soothes the edge, allowing you to see something simple from a different perspective.

Laurie Nadel

#50. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art ... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

C.S. Lewis

#51. Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.

Walter Darby Bannard

#52. Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

#53. I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.

H.R. Giger

#54. The biggest thing is education for young chefs and how they should focus on one cuisine rather than trying to imitate too many. It's like art - you can see the cycles from many past artists and new artists being inspired by past artists.

Daniel Boulud

#55. I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. He's very original, very accurate and acute.

Helen Vendler

#56. It is important to fund young researchers who want to do curiosity-driven research. Curiosity-driven research is a part of life. Some people are curious. They want to learn more about nature and society should help that. It's like art: you can learn more and bring more beauty.

Serge Haroche

#57. I know what I like - I like art - and I like what I know.

Vincent Price

#58. I think one of the worst things schools have done is taken out all of the stuff like art, music, woodworking, sewing, cooking, welding, auto-shop. All these things you can turn into careers. How can you get interested in these careers if you don't try them on a little bit?

Temple Grandin

#59. I feel like art imitates life and life imitates art.

Tia Mowry

#60. People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like looking at a heavy metal drummer. I mean, they're playing with the same amount of ferocity. It's not to say all jazz is like that.

Damien Chazelle

#61. I originally thought I'd be an ordinary business man, but I really like art, so that's how I became a manga artist.

Hiroyuki Takei

#62. Muse's creations are predominately lyrical often resulting in poetic sonnets and fairytale like art.

Earl M. Coleman

#63. The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems.

Laura Miller

#64. Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.

E.L. Doctorow

#65. I guess some fans like art and get it, others are just into the music, don't really turn up and have an opinion. The fans that have shown interest are all with me all the way.

Will Sergeant

#66. When we think we don't like art it is because it is artificial art.

Marianne Moore

#67. I really don't like art where you need to know so much theory to understand. If the theory is removed, it doesn't do anything. That means that this work is an illustration of theory, and I don't believe in the power of the work itself.

Marina Abramovic

#68. Art should look like art, trees and flowers and people, not weird shapes and splotches of color all smeared together.

Jennifer Estep

#69. It's a creative enterprise, just like art, just like painting, music. Creating something can be done in different categories, so to do it in film is just another expression, which is great. Because it translates so well because so many people see the work, if you're lucky.

Robert Redford

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

Charles De Lint

#71. I think of real estate as a little bit like cooking or like art.

Jerry Speyer

#72. We all kind of grew up together with Art Blakey because we all were young and he gave us a chance to write. We had to write something that was good and to sit up with a great guy like Art Blakey and watch him.

Freddie Hubbard

#73. At first my father didn't like Art, but after he got to know him better he really hated him.

Joe Hill

#74. Agreements about what is good or not, are usually not worth much. It is very much like art, is it not an art to lead a good life?

Albert Einstein

#75. Talking about abstract things is important. Having big, wild conversations about concepts like art, music, time travel, and dreams makes it much easier when you'll eventually need to talk about things like anger, sadness, pain, and love.

Tom Burns

#76. I always loved fashion and clothes. Not because I think that's a woman's place, but because I care about aesthetics. I like art; I like going to art museums, and to me, these things are just manifestations of one's aesthetic sense.

Leila Janah

#77. Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.

Rainbow Rowell

#78. I've never been a big fan of subtle art. I like art that gets deep into my head and starts my brain spinning with new ideas and inspiration and my whole body is full of energy.

Jello Biafra

#79. Like art, political action gives shape and expression to the things we fear as well as to those we desire. It is a creative process, drawing on the power to imagine as well as to act.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#80. Is love like art - something always ahead, never quite attained.

Edward Weston

#81. People understand what art is supposed to look like, and so it's easy to make something that looks like art but isn't - especially in an abstract form.

Lucien Smith

#82. Art Gropes. It stalks like a hunter lost in the woods, listening to itself and to everything around it, unsure of itself, waiting to pounce.

John Gardner

#83. Like any great art, the culture of hip-hop has changed with the times. With the state of technology, music is more accessible and freely exchanged. For hip-hop to grow while keeping a sense of integrity, the essence of the culture has to be handed down and respected like any high form of art.

One9

#84. Love isn't just a feeling. It's an art. And like any art, it takes not only inspiration but also a lot of work.

Paulo Coelho

#85. Thought must be hidden in the verse like nutritional virtue in a fruit.

Paul Valery

#86. My feet are not a good part of my body. They definitely have suffered for my art. They're, like, all bunions and blisters.

Lindy Booth

#87. All of my art is suitcase-sized. I always paint in mediums that dry pretty quickly because I've got to throw them in my suitcase and go. And I have so much because of that, because it's what I've always done to pass the time, and I like it.

Alison Mosshart

#88. O sleepers! what a thing is slumber! Sleep resembles death. Ah, why then dost thou not work in such wise as that after death thou mayst retain a resemblance to perfect life, when, during life, thou art in sleep so like to the hapless dead?

Leonardo Da Vinci

#89. I like keeping my work so open that it can be interpreted on different levels. Art can't be compared with journalism; it can't discuss concrete issues.

Mona Hatoum

#90. Poetry is more than just art, it's like super glue to a broken heart. It can also be a light when your life seems a little dark.

Delano Johnson

#91. Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Ed Koch

#92. For those 10 months back in Afghanistan after university, I felt I had no rights. It felt like I didn't exist. It was like I was their doll, and I was lost, somehow. My sister's husband brought me to an art gallery. It had a big effect on me.

Malina Suliman

#93. Puzzles are like songs - A good puzzle can give you all the pleasure of being duped that a mystery story can. It has surface innocence, surprise, the revelation of a concealed meaning, and the catharsis of solution.

Stephen Sondheim

#94. Art is the only place you can do what you like. That's freedom.

Paula Rego

#95. ... That little narrative is an example of the mathematician's art: asking simple and elegant questions about our imaginary creations, and crafting satisfying and beautiful explanations. There is really nothing else quite like this realm of pure idea; it's fascinating, it's fun, and it's free!

Paul Lockhart

#96. The morality of art consists, for everyone, in the side that flatters its own interests. People do not like literature.

Gustave Flaubert

#97. Art does not, like science, set forth a permanent order of nature, the enduring skeleton of law. Two factors primarily determine its works: one is the idea in the mind of the artist, the other is his power of expression; and both these factors are extremely variable.

George Edward Woodberry

#98. I know the community mostly for its art and culture ... and of course its food, I eat at their restaurants." "They make you feel like taking off your shoes ... it feels like home.

Erykah Badu

#99. The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.

Rabindranath Tagore

#100. The first movie I ever cried at was when I was 10 years old and saw 'The Notebook' in theaters. I was like, 'Whoa, so weird. Crying at a movie? I'm not supposed to do that. So weird.' I didn't know that art could make you do that.

Ansel Elgort