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I think we're much smarter than we were. Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another purpose to it.
— Roy Lichtenstein
Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.
— Leonard Baskin
Yes, I believe that the art of winning is through intimidation, and not necessarily do you have to speak about it.
— Mark Spitz
The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
— Martha Graham
The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
— E. M. Forster
Art is based on emotion, but being macho is based on ego; the wall protecting that emotion.
— Miguel
Graffiti's always been a temporary art form. You make your mark and then they scrub it off.
— Banksy
When I go to an art gallery and stand in front of a painting, I don't want someone telling me what I should be seeing or thinking; I want to feel whatever I feel, see whatever I see, and figure out what I figure out.
— James Frey
I make static art, not dynamic art. That's what I do.
— Michael Heizer
I love that works of art are printed so that anyone can buy them. The variety of what they put on little postcards astounds me.
— Leonard Lauder
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
The job of art is to chase ugliness away.
— Bono
Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.
— Linda Ronstadt
Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.
— Richard P. Feynman
Back in third grade, they used to say, 'Take whatever talent you have and think of something you can do with it.' I liked to draw, but what could I do with it? Maybe I could be an art dealer - nah, can't see myself doing that. Maybe I could do commercial arts?
— The Notorious B.I.G.
All the great works of art, the cathedrals - the Gothic cathedrals and the splendid Baroque churches - are a luminous sign of God, and thus are truly a manifestation, an epiphany of God.
— Pope Benedict XVI
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
— William Hazlitt
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
— Evelyn Waugh
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
— Lester Bangs
Where thou art, that is home.
— Emily Dickinson
The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.
— Hillary Clinton
The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.
— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.
— Robert Motherwell
The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.
— George Bernard Shaw
The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.
— Tom Wolfe
The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.
— Walter Benjamin
They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom.
— Ben Jonson
Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.
— Robert Schumann
Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
— Ezra Pound
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
— Ezra Pound
We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
— Henry James
It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.
— Tom Stoppard
The forms of art are inexhaustible but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.
— Clive Bell
Everything that is strong in me has gone into my art work.
— Robert Crumb
It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.
— Eddie Vedder
Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!
— D. H. Lawrence
All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.
— Robert Owen
No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the totality of the artist's body; you can really lean on it.
— Frank Stella
The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art.
— Alfred Stieglitz
Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.
— Gustave Courbet
I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.
— Anthony Kiedis
In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.
— Aaron Siskind
The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.
— Emmet Fox
Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
— Miguel de Cervantes
I think body-image issues are not just a dancer thing. I think we're much more in tune and aware because the body is our instrument and art, and we stare at ourselves in a mirror all day, but I feel like it's something that every woman experiences and every girl experiences.
— Misty Copeland
It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.
— Dave Barry
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
— Gertrude Stein
Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
— Willa Cather
The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.
— Diogenes
What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.
— Lionel Trilling
The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.
— Jerzy Kosinski
With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.
— Henri Matisse
Art gives people a reason to be alive.
— Marilyn Manson
The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, 'What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?' And, 'How does creativity apply across the board?'
— Kanye West
All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
— Federico Fellini
Cinema is an art form that is designed to go across borders. And as a filmmaker, the only way I can direct a movie is when I feel close to my culture.
— Denis Villeneuve
I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.
— Andy Warhol
In art, the obvious is a sin.
— Edward Dmytryk
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
— James Whistler
Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa.
— Art Blakey
The word 'art' interests me very much. If it comes from Sanskrit, as I've heard, it signifies 'making.' Now everyone makes something, and those who make things on a canvas with a frame, they're called artists. Formerly, they were called craftsmen, a term I prefer. We're all craftsmen, in civilian or military or artistic life.
— Marcel Duchamp
As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery.
— Thom Gunn
Enjoying art is a personal matter. It's made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction.
— Renzo Piano
The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
— Andre Gide
The work of art is a scream of freedom.
— Christo
The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.
— Flannery O'Connor
Architects, sculptors painters, we all must return to the crafts! For art is not a 'profession.' There is no essential difference between the artist and the craftsman. The artist is an exalted craftsman.
— Walter Gropius
To catch a husband is an art to hold him is a job.
— Simone de Beauvoir
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
— Cesare Pavese
Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.
— Federico Garcia Lorca
One thing that took a while to really adjust to was, you do it for the the art, for the money, for being together and having a good time, but you do it for all those people out there who really care about the show. We are now talking about a show we did over 20 years ago.
— Steve Kanaly
Art? That's a man's name.
— Andy Warhol
Art is the objectification of feeling.
— Herman Melville
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
— Dale Carnegie
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
— Frank Zappa
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
— Theodore Dreiser
Impressionism it is the birth of Light in painting.
— Robert Delaunay
Japanese people accept that art and commerce will be blended; and, in fact, they are surprised by the rigid and pretentious Western hierarchy of 'high art.'
— Takashi Murakami
The fine art of preparing sushi is something that you watch and learn.
— Nobu Matsuhisa
There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.
— William Osler
The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information.
— Serge Schmemann
Works of art make rules rules do not make works of art.
— Claude Debussy
Any fool can have bad luck the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.
— Frank Wedekind
When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.
— Alberto Giacometti
Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing.
— Peter Hammill
But I am a lover of all kinds of art. And I just can't stick to one thing. I guess I could if I made myself, but I'd always be looking the other way, for other things.
— Andre Benjamin
I want to try and be as involved in the art of filmmaking as possible. I feel that the only way to really do that is to take on as many roles as possible, whether it be as an actor, an editor, a director, a cinematographer.
— Joe Swanberg
Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for its own sake.
— Wole Soyinka
Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.
— Theodor Adorno
Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
— Robert Frost
The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
— Luc de Clapiers
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
— Stella Adler
Every good painter paints what he is.
— Jackson Pollock
Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.
— Egon Schiele
The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.
— Aldous Huxley
I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.
— Andy Warhol
An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one.
— Charles Horton Cooley
Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.
— Lincoln Steffens
I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.
— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.
— William Morris
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
— Michelangelo
I've always enjoyed feeling a connection to the avant-garde, such as Dada and surrealism and pop art. The only thing the artist can do is be honest with themselves and make the art they want to make. That's what I've always done.
— Jeff Koons
There's this shop in New York I go to it has bones and fossils and insects that are like works of art. I have a few on my wall.
— Eva Green
I love my Force Fins, which are the kind of fins Special Forces use and really are adapted from the fins of fish. They're very efficient. They are so beautiful, a pair is in the Museum of Modern Art. The set I have are ruby red. I call them my ruby flippers.
— Sylvia Earle
The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind.
— John Burroughs
Art is feminine... Look, if you're handsome and young and beautiful, well, people are always going to say that you're gay.
— Juan Gabriel
While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
— Odilon Redon
And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?'
— Rudyard Kipling
Maturity implies otherness... The art of living is the art of living with.
— Julius Gordon
You should carefully study the Art of Reasoning, as it is what most people are very deficient in, and I know few things more disagreeable than to argue, or even converse with a man who has no idea of inductive and deductive philosophy.
— William John Wills
Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.
— Andrew Wyeth
Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form.
— M. Night Shyamalan
I always imagined myself somehow as an electron around some atom, and you're just, like, bouncing around and spinning. There was a never-ending supply of places to go, people to see, things to do, and fitting it all in became kind of an art.
— Tom Freston
What is extraordinary about contemporary art is the energy - it has our energy. New energy. Pieces hundreds of years old are beautiful from an aesthetic point of view, but without our modern energy.
— Victor Pinchuk
Making beautiful things for everyday use is a wonderful thing to do - making life flow more easily - but art confronts life, allowing it to stop and perhaps change direction - they are completely different.
— Antony Gormley
The thing is that as you grow through life, the pursuit of art and the pursuit of new ideas, all these things keeps your mind elastic.
— Patti Smith
Someone made me a Leaf Coneybear finger puppet. Someone made me a portrait of me on some chocolate. I'm keeping it. I daren't eat such a work of art. It's so unique and so fun that fans do that. It's incredibly flattering. I like it when people spend time on me. People don't spend the same amount of time on my brother who's an insurance broker.
— Barrett Foa
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be grasped at once.
— Cyril Connolly
It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work.
— Hugh Newell Jacobsen
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
— James Joyce
We have lost the art of sharing and caring.
— Hun Sen
Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.
— Mark Rothko
But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of work it means there's a potential for other people to understand that a lot of things are possible with a sustained effort and that the broadening of experiences is possible and I think that's all art can be.
— Richard Serra
Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
— Fran Lebowitz
Masterpieces of art possess immense potential to advance a worldview that could help assuage the societal terrors posed by globalization, the most thoroughgoing socioeconomic upheaval since the Industrial Revolution, which has set off a pandemic of retrogressive nationalism, regional separatism, and religious extremism.
— Martin Filler
Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.
— Walter Murch
We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant.
— Alfred Eisenstaedt
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
— Andre Gide
The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.
— Lionel Trilling
With an apple I will astonish Paris.
— Paul Cezanne
It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.
— Wilson Mizner
All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour, so even when you're using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that's technology.
— George Lucas
You begin with the possibilities of the material.
— Robert Rauschenberg
An empty canvas is full.
— Robert Rauschenberg
If I didn't choose art, I would have become an astronomer.
— Peter Max
I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.
— David Rockefeller
I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master of two art forms. Seriously, you have to be able to draw like a Leonardo da Vinci or a Michelangelo. But also you have to know movement and timing and control that through 24 frames a second.
— John Lasseter
Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
— Jean-Luc Godard
For me, acting is about the art of it and it's about being on a film set and doing your thing, painting a blank canvas.
— Shailene Woodley
As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just art. If you give everybody a blank canvas and some paint, not everybody's picture is going to be exactly the same, but it's still art. I just do what I do.
— Jake Owen
I don't feel I'm trying to make art. I'm trying to make interesting things. People can relate to that.
— Thomas Heatherwick
My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with bodily movement. Instead of exhibiting my art in a museum or a book or on canvas, I exhibit my art in front of the multitudes.
— Steve Prefontaine
There is so much art can do to enlighten people, no matter what their views might be. If art can't go there or doesn't elevate the social consciousness in some way, then we are in peril.
— Octavia Spencer
In a storm, I think, 'What if the gospel be not true? Then thou art, of all men, most foolish. For what has thou given up thy goods, thy ease, thy friends, thy reputation, thy country, thy life?'
— John Wesley
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
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
— Jean Cocteau
In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.
— Patti Smith
Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.
— Denis Waitley
Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.
— Helen Rowland
Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
— Aristotle
Everyone thinks they can write a play you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life.
— Neil Simon
Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.
— Jim Morrison
We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art.
— Maurice Ravel
The art of Peace I practice has room for each of the world's eight million gods, and I cooperate with them all. The God of Peace is very great and enjoins all that is divine and enlightened in every land.
— Morihei Ueshiba
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
— William Samuel Johnson
Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's embedded in the work.
— Chuck Close
Extreme complication is contrary to art.
— Claude Debussy
Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.
— Charles Baudelaire
Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
— Muhammad Iqbal
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
When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
— Marcus Aurelius
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
— Stendhal
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
— Anatole France
Even a true artist does not always produce art.
— Carroll O'Connor
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
— Hedy Lamarr
Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.
— Henry Kissinger
If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
— Honore de Balzac
Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.
— Marshall McLuhan
Wherever art appears, life disappears.
— Robert Motherwell
What is art but a way of seeing?
— Saul Bellow
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
— Vladimir Nabokov
An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
— Willem de Kooning
I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
— William Butler Yeats
Rules and models destroy genius and art.
— William Hazlitt
To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.
— Kate Chopin
Art depends on luck and talent.
— Francis Ford Coppola
To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.
— Robert Mapplethorpe
If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens.
— Grandma Moses
The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.
— Paul Klee
What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.
— Raoul Dufy
Art is pattern informed by sensibility.
— Herbert Read
An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures.
— Wassily Kandinsky
My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
— Agnes Martin
I am not strong on perfection.
— Jasper Johns
The goal of art was the vital expression of self.
— Alfred Stieglitz
I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many.
— Robert Indiana
Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away.
— Donald Judd
The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.
— Jerzy Kosinski
Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.
— Balthus
There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning.
— Constantin Brancusi
I will preach with my brush.
— Henry Ossawa Tanner
I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages.
— John Zorn
My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
— Tadao Ando
In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.
— Paul Gauguin
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
What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.
— Michel Foucault
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.
— Duke Ellington
One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.
— Jean-Luc Godard
Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.
— Walter Pater
The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.
— Konrad Adenauer
There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.
— Mao Zedong
To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity.
— Thomas A. Edison
Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.
— Alexandre Dumas
So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.
— William Morris
All art is quite useless.
— Oscar Wilde
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
— Susan Sontag
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
— Charles Baudelaire
Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
— Charles de Lint
If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.
— Carl Andre
Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
— Carl Andre
Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity.
— Jack Bowman
Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label 'inspiration'.
— Norman Lindsay
Salesmanship, too, is an art; the perfection of its technique requires study and practice.
— James Cash Penney
When it came to my art, I went my own way and did not follow the trends.
— Frank Frazetta
I don't really believe in 'directions' in art; the rope twists as you follow it, that's all.
— Graham Nelson
Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.
— Nicolaus Copernicus
There's room for the Gap, but the joy of dressing is an art.
— John Galliano
The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
— Khalil Gibran
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
— Albert Camus
Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
— Francis Bacon
Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
— Saint Augustine
Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
— Ambrose Bierce
Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
— Ambrose Bierce
What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space.
— David Hockney
Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
— Harry S Truman
I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.
— Francis Ford Coppola
The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.
— D. H. Lawrence
I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
— D. H. Lawrence
Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.
— Charles Baudelaire
The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.
— Henry Miller
I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.
— Jodie Foster
I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.
— Marcel Duchamp
In seeking wisdom thou art wise in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
— E. M. Forster
Trying to force creativity is never good.
— Sarah McLachlan
Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
— Octavio Paz
That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.
— James Taylor
The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
— Ellen Key
Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been a very negative thing. I know that I have wanted very much to write books that are accessible to the widest audience possible.
— bell hooks
I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.
— Damien Hirst
I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.
— Lou Reed
Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
— Gustave Flaubert
Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
— Muhammad Iqbal
The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
— Elia Kazan
What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
— John Berger
No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
— Theodore Bikel
Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
— Joseph Conrad
I love the gallery, the arena of representation. It's a commercial world, and morality is based generally around economics, and that's taking place in the art gallery.
— Jeff Koons
Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
— E. L. Doctorow
It's clever, but is it Art?
— Rudyard Kipling
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
— Jean Cocteau
Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.
— Robert Browning
Every artist writes his own autobiography.
— Havelock Ellis
The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.
— John James Audubon
I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.
— Jackie Kennedy
I think you learn a lot about a country from its art. To me, it's part of the drama of life. It teaches you that there are places, moments and incidents in other cultures that genuinely have a life of their own.
— Michael Palin
Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
— Andre Gide
There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
— Andre Gide
Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
— Andre Gide
All great art is born of the metropolis.
— Ezra Pound
The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.
— Bernard Baruch
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.
— Cyril Connolly
I'm just really impressed by oil paintings - I don't see how people do it! That's the style I like: classic oil paintings. Abstract art just isn't my thing.
— Brittany Howard
True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
— Quintilian
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
Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.
— Anish Kapoor
Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
— Henri Matisse
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
— Paul Valery
Painting and writing are solitary arts.
— Conrad Hall
Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
— Elizabeth Bowen
Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.
— Kary Mullis
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
— Iris Murdoch
All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
— Iris Murdoch
And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.
— Pam Grier
Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.
— Robert Smithson
I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art.
— Jay Kay
Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a very encapsulated form. It disciplines you to cut away extraneous information.
— Dick Wolf
Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
— Miguel de Unamuno
The best artists know what to leave out.
— Charles de Lint
Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.
— Franz Liszt
To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
— Anthony Burgess
A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.
— Charles Dudley Warner
It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.
— Henry Moore
Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.
— Henry Moore
When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.
— Sol LeWitt
People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing interest in collecting art as an investment and the resultant boom in the art market, made it a difficult time for a young artist to remain sincere without becoming cynical.
— Keith Haring
I cry out for order and find it only in art.
— Helen Hayes
Art must take reality by surprise.
— Francoise Sagan
A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
— Jack Bowman
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
— Novalis
When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.
— Jim Hodges
Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?
— Alfred de Vigny
It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.
— Isadora Duncan
Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.
— Andre Malraux
When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.
— Paul Klee
Paint the essential character of things.
— Camille Pissarro
I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire.
— Tara Reid
The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
Great artists suffer for the people.
— Marvin Gaye
Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.
— Pierre Bonnard
It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.
— Clive Bell
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
— Amy Lowell
It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture.
— George Grosz
Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.
— Edward Steichen
When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.
— Edward Steichen
Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
— Edward Steichen
A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.
— Joshua Reynolds
I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there.
— Frank Stella
An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public.
— Maurice Chevalier
Art thou the King of the Jews?
— Pontius Pilate
Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.
— Edgard Varese
To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.
— Philip Guston
Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.
— Philip Guston
One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
— Balthus
Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.
— Ad Reinhardt
Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
— Ad Reinhardt
I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind.
— Henry Ossawa Tanner
Art is anything people do with distinction.
— Louis Dudek
The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.
— John Tillotson
Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
— Robert Quillen
It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.
— Alfred Eisenstaedt
I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.
— Robert Indiana
I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.
— Robert Indiana
Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.
— Paddy Chayefsky
My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
— Carl Andre
Real art is one of the most powerful forces in the rise of mankind, and he who renders it accessible to as many people as possible is a benefactor of humanity.
— Zoltan Kodaly
As I very much liked to draw and paint as a child, I entered a special art program in high school, which was very much like being in an art school imbedded in a regular high school curriculum.
— Jerome Isaac Friedman
To me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it.
— Noah Taylor
Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.
— James Huneker
Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love.
— Alfred Sisley
There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them. 
— Hale White
I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.
— Jacques-Henri Lartigue
Art is a liaison between some sort of deranged mentality and others who are not going through it.
— John Chamberlain
The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.
— Hendrik Willem Van Loon
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
— Will Rogers
Politics have no relation to morals.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
— John F. Kennedy
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
— Plato
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.
— Mark Twain
In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
— Aristotle
I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.
— T. D. Jakes
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
— Dante Alighieri
The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
— Thomas Sowell
The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.
— Theodore Roosevelt
I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.
— Andrew Jackson
To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.
— Hubert H. Humphrey
It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
— Joseph Stalin
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
— H. L. Mencken
People say satire is dead. It's not dead it's alive and living in the White House.
— Robin Williams
No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.
— Emma Goldman
Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.
— Pericles
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
— Milton Friedman
A fool and his money are soon elected.
— Will Rogers
A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
— Harry S Truman
Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.
— William E. Simon
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
— John Stuart Mill
The unique thing about our country is that we have Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Parsis, and people of all other religions. We have temples and mosques, gurdwaras and churches. But we do not bring all this into politics... This is the difference between India and Pakistan.
— Lal Bahadur Shastri
We all have our likes and our dislikes. But... when we're doing news - when we're doing the front-page news, not the back page, not the op-ed pages, but when we're doing the daily news, covering politics - it is our duty to be sure that we do not permit our prejudices to show. That is simply basic journalism.
— Walter Cronkite
America's present need is not heroics but healing not nostrums but normalcy not revolution but restoration.
— Warren G. Harding
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
What I'm asking for is hard. It's easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn't possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don't matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.
— Barack Obama
If you believe you can make a difference, not just in politics, in public service, in advocacy around all these important issues, then you have to be prepared to accept that you are not going to get 100 percent approval.
— Hillary Clinton
The secret of getting things done is to act!
— Dante Alighieri
If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.
— Thomas Sowell
In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
— Caskie Stinnett
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.
— Maria Montessori
I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.
— John Adams
There are no morals in politics there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
— Vladimir Lenin
As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.
— Angela Davis
I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.
— Newt Gingrich
I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.
— Ray Bradbury
In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.
— Winston Churchill
The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.
— Ross Perot