Jack White Quotes

The secret of a successful art career is to make more art that folks think they need than pieces they just want. When a piece of art emotionally connects with a person the work becomes a need. You are then on your way to becoming successful.

Jack White The White Stripes

Quotes to Explore

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

Napoleon Bonaparte
- Art
- War
- Enemy
Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.

Barry Eisler
- Great
- Art
- Movie
I remember I heard it in an interview with Michael Jackson one day, saying the art is gone, everybody makes records just to make a record. See, I always want the artist that try to build a whole body of music on one album, so you can enjoy it. So you could say, 'I went with him here, I went with him here.'

Raekwon
- Music
- Art
- Remember
Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.

Oscar Wilde
- Art
- Desire
- Problems
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Pablo Picasso
- Art
- Sun
- Yellow
I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.

T. C. Boyle
- World
- God
- Art