The Art Lover Quotes

#1. Nothing is more hallowing than the union of kindred spirits in art. At the moment of meeting, the art lover transcends himself.

Okakura Kakuzo

#2. She was in awe of all his work. 'How do you do it?" she asked.
He smiled and said, 'By loving you.

Kamand Kojouri

#3. Ah, there's a director. Astonishing, Spike Lee. A feisty guy, but a guy who's, I think, incredibly misunderstood. I think people review his politics or his color as opposed to his filmmaking sometimes. Because he's a wonderful, wonderful filmmaker and a lover of the art.

Brian Cox

#4. When you are in love with a man or a woman, the love you feel does not come from him or her; it is the love flowing from you own heart that you feel. Your partner is simply giving you an excuse to love. Love is always found flowing in your heart, not in your family, lover, career or art.

David Deida

#5. The miracle often lies outside our comfort zone.

Marianne Williamson

#6. But I am a lover of all kinds of art. And I just can't stick to one thing. I guess I could if I made myself, but I'd always be looking the other way, for other things.

Andre Benjamin

#7. If it feels nice, just throw the dice.

Nina Obran

#8. Hey, I'm an art lover," protested Ramirez. "I love Thomas Kinkade. Painter of Light, you know what I'm sayin'?"
Beverly's smile froze. "Yes, quite.

Linda Morris

#9. Most men had rather say a smart thing than do a good one. John P. Kotter, Leading Change.

Josh Billings

#10. It has come to this, that the lover of art is one, and the lover of nature another, though true art is but the expression of our love of nature.

Henry David Thoreau

#11. Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.

Helen Rowland

#12. Artist: An art lover who sees a hole in the art they love and seeks to fill it.

Victor A. Davis

#13. He gave us music that reached into the ear like a lover's tongue and changed the color of our feelings. He presented movement so exquisite and fluid it coaxed our souls out of our bodies to dance with him, weightless in the perfume of divinity.

Katie Waitman

#14. I think there is a huge difference between writers who have very big sales, and writers who have small sales. Even writers with very high reputations, even Nobel prize winners, often sell in very low figures.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#15. For what it's worth, I think perfect love stories have perfect disasters hidden somewhere. If a genuine relationship comes out of two people screwing before they saw the potential of the 'relationship'? Its perfect, beautiful, a work of art in fact.. Normal is overrated.

Nike Thaddeus

#16. 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

#17. I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty.

Jacqueline Bisset

#18. Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid enough to abandon representative government for any other kind, including government by the guy who knows.

Bernard DeVoto

#19. Beautiful, sad, wounded, and lost," he continued. "A freak, a work of art, a liar, and a lover.

Karina Halle

#20. By encouraging the critic in themselves (the hater) they have killed the artist (the lover).

Brenda Ueland

#21. In homosexual love the passion is homosexuality itself. What a homosexual loves, as if it were his lover, his country, his art, his land, is homosexuality.

Marguerite Duras

#22. When love is the trend, there is no room for violence and war.

Gabrielle Bernstein

#23. The deep art ... That's the part that has to be guarded like a miser would his money ... Like a dope addict would his dope ... Like a lover with their love.

Alonzo King

#24. The lover of nature has the highest art in his soul.

Richard Jefferies

#25. Art is basically communication, and I think everyone who's a music lover has had that experience where a record or a recording has kept you company when no one else is around. And I think that is what I'm hoping that people get out of my music.

Conor Oberst

#26. As a lover or a dipsomaniac, I've no doubt of your being a most fascinating specimen. But as a combiner of forms, you must honestly admit it, you're a bore.

Aldous Huxley

#27. O, let not virtue seek Remuneration for the thing it was; For beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time.

William Shakespeare

#28. The artist is the lover of nature; therefore he is her slave and her master.

Rabindranath Tagore

#29. Shit, there goes our chance at winning." Pey laughed. "A cocky quarterback that's in love with himself. We'll be lucky if you don't stop every two seconds to check yourself out.

Priya Kanaparti

#30. Lordy, lordy, lordy do I love money. It is a character flaw, no doubt, one that springs from a panicked childhood in which I always felt as if our family was only a couple missed child support payments from being tossed onto the pitiless streets of our suburban New Jersey town.

Michael Ian Black

#31. The Arts and Sciences, essential to the prosperity of the State and to the ornament of human life, have a primary claim to the encouragement of every lover of his country and mankind.

George Washington

#32. Like the bud of a flower, change forces you to surrender to growth. It makes you vulnerable. It requires you to enlarge, expand and become bigger. Like the oxygen provided with each breath, we are denied its benefits until we relax and breathe in.

Stella Payton

#33. Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.

Raymond Chandler

#34. Art is like a lover whom you run away from but who comes back and picks you up.

Tracey Emin

#35. It is significant that one says book lover and music lover and art lover but not record lover or CD lover or, conversely, text lover.

James Gleick