Art Quotes

"It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief"

"I don't think there is too much art involved in what I do"

"Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting"

"There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time"

James H. Breasted

"Then I moved down to the Bowery to this building where Debbie Harry lived. It was there that I started combining some clothes for her and continued doing the art and photography"

Stephen Sprouse, Designer

"I don't know if it's a movement, but the only thing new that's happening is that I think music and art and video and fashion are all kind of thrown into one big ball that's on television, and people see that all the time - you see a fusion of all those things"

Stephen Sprouse, Designer

"But you know in the contemporary art world, you pose a very interesting conundrum. All sorts of people collect very contemporary art, yet when it comes to the music which is analogous to that sort of art, they are not interested, or perhaps even hostile"

Michael Tilson Thomas, Musician

"Our humor turns our anger into a fine art"

Mary Kay Blakely

"Most Glorious and eternal Majesty, Thou art righteous and holy in all thou dost to the sons of men, though thou hast suffered men to condemn Thy servant, Thy servant will not condemn Thee"

Christopher Love, Educator

"Music, art, theater. I'm just a big fan of beauty"

Jerry Hall, Model

"You know, essentially when you do a play you're reinterpreting a work of art that already exists. That's not what happens with a movie"

Sydney Pollack, Director

"I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon"

Sydney Pollack, Director

"Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes"

John Ford, Dramatist

"The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive"

Robert Hughes, Critic

"The spirit of the Olympic movement is great for young people because it teaches them about the training and discipline required to compete. Even if they don't make the teams, they can rededicate their lives to the art of sport, discipline, and physical fitness"

Richard M. Daley, Politician

"It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art"

Pauline Kael, Critic

"Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play"

Max Beckmann, Artist

"When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another"

Sol LeWitt, Artist

"During the '70s I was interested in words and meaning as a way of making art"

Sol LeWitt, Artist

"All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art"

Sol LeWitt, Artist

"Angela King is a lovely person with a tremendous sense of art"

Peter Max, Artist

"Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation"

Richard Holloway, Writer

"It's not enough for me to cover theater, I have to throw myself around every other art form, and do so thoroughly and relentlessly"

Michael Musto, Writer

"The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious"

Lester Bangs, Critic

"As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien"

Gavin Bryars, Composer

"The practice of the law is a perfectly distinct art"

Frederick Pollock, Judge

"Washington is a mean town where human sacrifice has been raised to an art form"

Dick Morris, Author

"I've worked with actors before where I was like, this is not working, and then I've seen their work on the screen and I've been like, Wow, that was a really great performance. Because there are a lot of elements with film. It's not like stage. It's not a kind of performance art anymore; it's a highly tuned kind of collaboration - a symphony"

Vincent Kartheiser, Actor

"Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form"

Shelley Berman, Comedian

"Art is man's nature; nature is God's art"

Philip James Bailey, Poet

"Too many of these writers in the music papers, they are misunderstanding everything. The disco sound is not art or anything so serious"

Giorgio Moroder, Producer

"Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes"

Len Wein, Cartoonist

"You can have information and ease of use and have artistic integrity at the same time. The art of being a good Web designer is getting yourself into that middle ground and treating it as a final destination instead of as a compromise"

Mike Davidson

"Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls"

Ingmar Bergman, Director

"Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced"

Hans Hofmann, Artist

"I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school"

Ray Harryhausen, Director

"I'm fascinated by how Hollywood has changed since I started. Today it's about immediate delivery. There's less risk and less art"

Diane Lane, Actress

"What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part in my art"

Max Beckmann, Artist

"I probably had some impact, because everyone keeps telling me that I did. I like to feel like I'm coming out with something to try to make room for other young women to make their art"

Liz Phair, Musician

"Any idealism is a proper subject for art"

Lafcadio Hearn, Author

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