Art Quotes

• Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa.

  

  Art Blakey
  • People
  • World
  • American

• Art class was my thing, but not any other class.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Art
  • Class
  • Other

• The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • History
  • Today
  • Change

• We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art.

  

  Maurice Ravel
  • Work
  • Real
  • Remember

• I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art.

  

  Jay Kay Jamiroquai
  • Art
  • Joy

• The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

  

  Aristotle
  • Things
  • Aim
  • Significance

• In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Art
  • Man
  • Himself

• The ring at the end of my nose makes me look rather pretty.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Pretty
  • Looks
  • Media

• The art of leadership is not to spend your time measuring, evaluating. It's all about selecting the person. And if you believe you selected the right person, then you give that person the freedom, the authority, the delegation to innovate and to lead with some very simple measure.

  

  Pierre Nanterme
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Freedom

• Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Lie

• The fragile art of existenceIs kept alive by sheer persistenceThe fragile art of existence.No time for self-pityNo time for dwelling on what should have beenBut is yet to be.

  

  Chuck Schuldiner
  • Should
  • Existence
  • Self

• Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Art
  • Criticism

• No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved ones - if existence is filled with art, music and literature, life will be fulfilling, a joy.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Life
  • World
  • Music

• The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Earth
  • Artist
  • Sky

• Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.

  

  Harold Coffin
  • Art
  • Envy
  • Blessings

• I also went to art school and learned to play a piano there, but I play by ear.

  

  John Mayall
  • School
  • Art

• Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Trying
  • Yourself
  • Fool

• ...treasure what it means to do a day's work. It's our one and only chance to do something productive today, and it's certainly not available to someone merely because he is the high bidder. A day's work is your chance to do art, to create a gift, to do something that matters. As your work gets better and your art becomes more important, competition for your gifts will increase and you'll discover that you can be choosier about whom you give them to.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Important
  • Today
  • Giving

• I feel like Adele is a diva. Not in the bad way. She is one of the greatest voices of this industry and of her own art. What she offers is so unique that she's risen to such a status that very few artists can enjoy.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Artists
  • Voices
  • Diva

• Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.

  

  David Seabury
  • Good
  • Character
  • Practice

• Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, or else for those resolute dead-enders, who have made up their minds to be content with the ersatz of Suchness, with symbols rather than with what they signify, with the elegantly composed recipe in lieu of actual dinner.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Up
  • Art

• I don't like to treat a piece of clothing like an object of art because I don't consider myself an artist. I'm a designer.

  

  Frida Giannini
  • Art

• I really think there's no difference between an art piece made by a man and one made by a woman. Is it a good art piece or a bad art piece? Of course, if you're female, you're maybe dealing with different issues.

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • Good
  • Different
  • Bad

• You can't visit readers where you think they are. You have to invite them home to where you are and try to lure them into your universe. That's the art of storytelling.

  

  Jo Nesbo
  • Art
  • Home
  • Universe

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