Top 496 Art Quotes

Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.

Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.

Robert Gottlieb

My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing.

My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing.

Renee Fleming

Everyone in those days expected that art students were wild, licentious characters. We didn't know how to be, but we sure were anxious to learn.

Everyone in those days expected that art students were wild, licentious characters. We didn't know how to be, but we sure were anxious to learn.

Norman Rockwell

I don't think schooling of any sort really prepares you for real life. I don't know if art school would have prepared me to draw comics. Half of the people I know in comics went to art school, half of them didn't. Some of them went and dropped out.

Dave Gibbons

I've always been a creative person since I was young. I enjoyed art, museums, plays, but it wasn't until I was about 10 that my mother encouraged me to choose a career, and it was acting.

I've always been a creative person since I was young. I enjoyed art, museums, plays, but it wasn't until I was about 10 that my mother encouraged me to choose a career, and it was acting.

Sufe Bradshaw

Excellent teachers showered on to us like meteors: Biology teachers holding up human brains, English teachers inspiring us with a personal ideological fierceness about Tolstoy and Plato, Art teachers leading us through the slums of Boston, then back to the easel to hurl public school gouache with social awareness and fury.

Sylvia Plath

Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art.

Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art.

Robert Hughes

The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion.

The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion.

Mike Birbiglia

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.

Hillary Clinton

You do manage a somewhat religious attitude toward your art. It is a calling rather than a job.

You do manage a somewhat religious attitude toward your art. It is a calling rather than a job.

Jim Harrison

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