Art Quotes

"The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't"

Lenny Bruce, Comedian

"I'd like to work on putting art programs back in schools"

Chaka Khan, Musician

"Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing"

Erykah Badu, Musician

"Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process"

Franz Grillparzer, Poet

"I didn't have any interest in traditional art"

Cindy Sherman, Photographer

"The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up"

Charles Morgan, Novelist

"With the art therapy, as soon as they saw the paper and crayons coming, we couldn't get it out fast enough. And we told them to draw about the tsunami"

Connie Sellecca, Actress

"I was so impressed with the work we were doing and I was very involved ideologically in photography - that I arranged an exhibition at the College Art Association. The first exhibition I picked the photographs and so on and we had an exhibition in New York"

Ben Shahn, Artist

"I, in the end, make art for myself"

Anish Kapoor, Artist

"Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when I'm 80"

Anish Kapoor, Artist

"The tensions are always based on financial resources. Something like film is very problematic because it is viewed as an art form and also as an industry with a pure commercial base"

Ann Macbeth, Author

"The dichotomy between art and industry is totally dysfunctional in terms of film"

Ann Macbeth, Author

"It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process"

Max Eastman, Author

"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, Poet

"Art led the way for me to recover. He got out of prison before me and started traveling all over the world before I did. He showed me by example that it could be done, and I'll always love him for that"

Frank Morgan, Actor

"Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid"

Walter Winchell, Journalist

"In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period"

Edward Hopper, Artist

"But I think you have to - whatever the environment looks like, it does enter into people's art work one way or another; it's very remote or it isn't. It's remote in my work but it has to have a certain degree of ordinariness"

Donald Judd, Artist

"Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession"

Andre Breton, Poet

"I'm not trying to do conceptual art"

Peter Sotos, Writer

"Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame"

Ville Valo, Musician

"Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint"

Robert Delaunay, Artist

"Even a true artist does not always produce art"

Carroll O'Connor, Actor

"All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography"

Federico Fellini, Director

"A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object"

Richard Schickel, Author

"Songwriting is an art unto itself, not to be confused with performing"

Jo Stafford, Musician

"I spend my time trying to figure art out. I was brought up to believe that the way one processes information is by making it into art. That's how I live my life"

Sean Lennon, Musician

"Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down"

Julia Cameron, Author

"The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the country should be happy that we are what we are"

David Dinkins, Politician

"We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it"

Clive Bell, Critic

"There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless"

Clive Bell, Critic

"For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties"

John C. Ransom

"I've learned that I'm most powerful when I'm doing my art"

Andre Benjamin, Musician

"I made a lot of different experiments with tapes at that time, until I finally realized around 1995, that sound is an interesting subject for me. Ever since then sound got more and more integrated into my art works, musically as well as physically"

Alva Noto, Artist

"In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people"

Edward Hopper, Artist

"Well, in any art there are a lot of technical things that you can get to like"

Donald Judd, Artist

"I used to have a list of things from my school buddies of what kind of art material they wanted. I'd go up to the West End of London and spend the whole day knocking stuff off"

Ronald Biggs, Celebrity

"For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art"

Rita Dove, Poet

"At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture"

Martin Puryear, Sculptor

"There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form"

Anatole Broyard, Critic

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