Famous Quotes
- I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.
- Marilyn Manson on Art
- I think good art does come from a dark place.
- Rick Springfield on Art
- I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.
- Andy Warhol on Art
- I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.
- Jim Morrison on Art
- I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.
- Willie Nelson on Art
- I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.
- Katharine Hepburn on Art
- I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person's day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something.
- Eddie Vedder on Art
- I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music.
- Thom Yorke on Art
- I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.
- David Rockefeller on Art
- I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
- Marshall McLuhan on Art
- I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.
- Robert Indiana on Art
- I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! It's an art form. I talk a lot. And I think a lot. And I draw a lot. But never in a million years would I have been a parent. That's just work that's too hard.
- Maurice Sendak on Art
- I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.
- Emily Carr on Art
- I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.
- I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person.
- Alanis Morissette on Art
- I view art as an inspirational tool.
- Thomas Kincade on Art
- I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness and change, or at least some discussion.
- I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.
- Garry Kasparov on Art
- I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'
- I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.
- Elia Kazan on Art
- I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.
- Robert Indiana on Art
- I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.
- Sylvester Stallone on Art
- I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
- Khalil Gibran on Art
- I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.
- Charlie Chaplin on Art
- I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.
- David Hockney on Art
- I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.
- Mary Baker Eddy on Art
- I'd like to introduce someone who has just come into my life. I've admired him for 35 years. He's someone who represents integrity, honesty, art, and on top of that stuff I'm actually sleeping with him.
- Shirley MacLaine on Art
- I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.
- Billie Joe Armstrong on Art
- I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.
- Andy Warhol on Art
- 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
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