Needing Art Quotes

#1. The things keeping you back-these embarrassing, boring, stupid obstacles-are the heart of what it is to be human. They're the whole reason for making and needing art. So you might as well go ahead and begin in whatever way you can right now.

Miranda July

#2. I've made love to my mother, killed my father, and my brother. What am I to do?

Lou Reed

#3. Christ alone can save the world, but Christ cannot save the world alone.

David Livingstone

#4. He's the same in the court-room as he is on the public streets.

Harper Lee

#5. Unlike art, the making of home does not stay done. Every morning, every evening, the mess awaits us. The messy, hungry, beautiful world, wanting and needing our touch.

Rebecca McClanahan

#6. The United States is definitely ahead in culture of innovation. If someone wants to accomplish great things, there is no better place than the U.S.

Elon Musk

#7. An artist is someone who, needing nothing and no one, wants everything and everyone.

Neel Burton

#8. I think the art world heightens the intensity of desires for inclusion, and the humiliations of exclusion, which is why it's a great place to circulate when you are in the lucky position, as I am, of not wanting or needing anything from anyone.

Rachel Kushner

#9. Who is going to teach fighting spirit to our kids if they are growing up watching us sitting in a comfortable zone in life.
We got to wake up and fight it out in our areas of passion, and be an example for our kids.

Manoj Arora

#10. I grew up in New York, so I fell in love with acting on a stage, not in front of a camera.

Kerry Washington

#11. Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him.

Irving Stone

#12. There is a single entendre, but I don't know about a triple one.

Julian Clary

#13. Laughter is infectious, like small pox or gay.

Stan Smith

#14. Delimitation is always difficult. The world is one, life is one. The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure of violence - the act of love, for instance; music, for instance.

Anthony Burgess

#15. The most outspoken man was the least discerning. Ignoring

Brandon Sanderson

#16. What seems most significant to me about our movement [Impressionism] is that we have freed painting from the importance of the subject. I am at liberty to paint flowers and call them flowers, without their needing to tell a story.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#17. We are just statistics, born to consume resources.

Horace

#18. The only slight disconcertance being that in the middle of looking at a paintings [in the Museum of Modern Art] she always found herself desperately needing to take a pee. And grandmother's voice in her ear.
'My dear, if you really have to, only clean, very clean rest rooms will do.

J.P. Donleavy

#19. Community is about sharing my life; about allowing the chaos of another's circumstances to infringe on mine; about permitting myself to be known without constraint; about resigning myself to needing others.

Sandy Oshiro Rosen

#20. Go on a date or something, you need to get a life,

Kiera Cass