Art Quotes

A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.

Louis Nizer

I have the opportunity to learn about the fashion world, and I appreciate it as an art form... But I never want it to take over my acting.

Lupita Nyong'o

What's becoming very obvious to me is that fashion is art.

Lupita Nyong'o

I wanted to emulate my parents - Mum captained India in basketball, and Dad won a bronze in hockey in 1972 Olympics. My focus has always been to achieve excellence whether in the field of tennis, in the corporate field, in the art of acting or in mot...

Leander Paes

I try to see interviewing as performance art, and just take it as it comes.

Liz Phair

I think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean?

Liz Phair

Yeah, I like to be the maker of the art. And I like and want the money. But I don't really dig being famous.

Liz Phair

I probably had some impact, because everyone keeps telling me that I did. I like to feel like I'm coming out with something to try to make room for other young women to make their art.

Liz Phair

Opera is one of the most important art forms. It should be listened to and appreciated by everyone.

Luciano Pavarotti

In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things.

Luciano Pavarotti

I don't believe in the school of hard knocks, although I've had them. All that stuff about whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger is so not true. Do you know what makes you stronger? When people treat you and your art with dignity.

Lana Del Rey

Art is art, and journalism is journalism.

Lance Reddick

I profoundly feel that the art of living is the art of giving. You're fulfilled in the moment of giving, of doing something beyond yourself.

Laurance Rockefeller

To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.

Laura Riding

Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts.

Laura Riding

Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.

Linda Ronstadt

I always thought competition was for horse races and it never belonged in art. I never felt that competitive with other girl singers, really.

Linda Ronstadt

I don't think we have reached a point where art really translates into science. Perhaps for some people, having good visuals can help translate into science.

Lisa Randall

I don't necessarily make much art myself, but after I wrote 'Warped Passages,' I was fortunate to get involved a little in the art world. I got invited to write a libretto for what we called a projective opera, and I also got invited to curate an art...

Lisa Randall

How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?

Lou Reed

I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.

Lou Reed