Top 496 Art Quotes

My parents did not discourage me but could not understand how I could make a living by art. Their idea of an artist was a person who was condemned to starvation.

My parents did not discourage me but could not understand how I could make a living by art. Their idea of an artist was a person who was condemned to starvation.

Jacob Epstein

As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that's never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish.

As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that's never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish.

Charlie Haden

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.

Paul Cezanne

My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'

My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'

N. Scott Momaday

I didn't have any interest in traditional art.

I didn't have any interest in traditional art.

Cindy Sherman

When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.

When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.

Patrick Stump

When you're a little kid, you just like music that makes you happy and is fun. As you get older, you reach college or your 20s and you decide that music should be challenging and all art should be smart. So you start to think it makes you like high art more to put down things you consider low art. I don't even think things are low art.

Patrick Stump

I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.

I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.

Shia LaBeouf

I'd like to see the comics' style expanded. I'd like to see artists synthesize traditional comics arts style with fine-arts styles or whatever. I like to see innovation. I don't like it when an art form becomes stagnant.

Harvey Pekar

I'm not actually a mom in real life, so it's fun to pretend to be one. I like to approach things the same in art as in life. You can choose to look on the positive side and enjoy whatever roles you're given. You can find the silver lining in anything.

Heather Graham

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