- I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.
- Steve Martin on Art
- I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that.
- Erykah Badu on Art
- I'm not dead and I don't have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch myself onscreen but this time it's fine. I think it's beautiful and a real work of art.
- Helena Bonham Carter on Art
- I'm not interested in pop art.
- Billy Corgan on Art
- I'm noticing a new approach to art making in recent museum and gallery shows. It flickered into focus at the New Museum's 'Younger Than Jesus' last year and ran through the Whitney Biennial, and I'm seeing it blossom and bear fruit at 'Greater New York,' MoMA P.S. 1's twice-a-decade extravaganza of emerging local talent.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.
- I'm very manipulative towards directors. My theory is that everyone on the set is directing the film, we're all receiving art messages from the universe on how we should do the film.
- Jeff Bridges on Art
- I'm very much into the costuming of any character that I portray and it's one of the great things about making movies is it's a collaborative art form so you get all these artists who are looking specifically about for this instance your character's costume and what that might tell about your character.
- Jeff Bridges on Art
- I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
- Barbra Streisand on Art
- I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more.
- I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.
- Laurie Anderson on Art
- I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.
- Danny Boyle on Art
- If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.
- Arne Jacobsen on Art
- If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
- John F. Kennedy on Art
- If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.
- John Lennon on Art
- If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.
- Alan Rickman on Art
- If only we could persuade galleries to observe a fallow period in which, for two months every other year, new and old works of art could be sold in back rooms and all main galleries would be devoted to revisiting shows gone by.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- If the Frieze Art Fair catches on, I imagine at least two great things happening. First, we will once again have a huge art fair in town that isn't too annoying to go to. More importantly, Frieze may finally show New Yorkers that we can cross our own waters for visual culture. That would change everything.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca on Art
- If thou art a master, be sometimes blind if a servant, sometimes deaf.
- Thomas Fuller on Art
- If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
- Honore De Balzac on Art
- If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world.
- Sri Chinmoy on Art
- If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.
- Mason Cooley on Art
- If you cannot learn to love real art at least learn to hate sham art.
- William Morris on Art
- If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
- If you don't get noticed, you don't have anything. You just have to be noticed, but the art is in getting noticed naturally, without screaming or without tricks.
- Leo Burnett on Art
- If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
- Vincent Van Gogh on Art
- Imagine it's 1981. You're an artist, in love with art, smitten with art history. You're also a woman, with almost no mentors to look to art history just isn't that into you. Any woman approaching art history in the early eighties was attempting to enter an almost foreign country, a restricted and exclusionary domain that spoke a private language.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.
- Lionel Trilling on Art
- In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
- Ernst Fischer on Art
- In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.
- Damien Hirst on Art
- In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.
- Camille Paglia on Art
- In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.
- Patti Smith on Art
- In art as in love, instinct is enough.
- Anatole France on Art
- In art the best is good enough.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe on Art
- In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
- Rabindranath Tagore on Art
- In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson on Art
- In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject the form is always in proportion to the obsession.
- Alberto Giacometti on Art
- In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'
- Kristin Scott Thomas on Art
- In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.
- Edward Hopper on Art
- In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
- In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.
- Edward Hopper on Art
- In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
- Edward G. Bulwer Lytton on Art
- In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.
- Georg Cantor on Art
- In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.
- Theodore Bikel on Art
- In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
- Marc Chagall on Art
- In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.
- Thomas Huxley on Art
- In seeking wisdom thou art wise in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
- Lord Chesterfield on Art
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