- Damien Hirst is the Elvis of the English art world, its ayatollah, deliverer, and big-thinking entrepreneurial potty-mouthed prophet and front man. Hirst synthesizes punk, Pop Art, Jeff Koons, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Bacon, and Catholicism.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
- Edward Koch on Art
- Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
- Victor Hugo on Art
- Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
- John Donne on Art
- Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
- Alice Walker on Art
- Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
- H. L. Mencken on Art
- Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
- David Herbert Lawrence on Art
- Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.
- Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
- Will Rogers on Art
- Diplomacy, n. is the art of letting somebody else have your way.
- David Frost on Art
- Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.
- Henry A. Kissinger on Art
- Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
- Malcolm Forbes on Art
- Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.
- Camille Paglia on Art
- Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
- Paul Cezanne on Art
- Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
- Henri Matisse on Art
- Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
- Salvador Dali on Art
- Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.
- Sylvia Plath on Art
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