Art Quotes

"Art is subject to arbitrary fashion"

"Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home"

"Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn"

"I don't know what its like for most actors, but really clearly for myself acting has always been the fulfilment of personal fantasies. It isn't just art, its about being a person I've always wanted to be, or being in a situation, or being a hero"

Richard Dreyfuss, Actor

"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"

Paul Rand, Designer

"Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail"

Theodore Dreiser, Novelist

"The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible"

Jacques Chirac, Statesman

"The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people"

Irving Thalberg, Producer

"It's a shame because we experienced probably the greatest thing - in art, in pop - we'll ever do. And it would be good to sit around and talk about it"

Gary Kemp, Musician

"The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism"

Alma Gluck, Musician

"I believe that any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive"

Larry Rivers, Musician

"An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination"

Eduard Hanslick, Writer

"The question is not... if art is enough to fulfill my life, but if I am true to the path I have set for myself, if I am the best I can be in the things I do. Am I living up to the reasons I became a singer in the first place?"

Kathleen Battle, Actress

"Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love"

Claude Monet, Artist

"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, Artist

"Publishing a protocol under the name Atom that tries to capture all of the prior art in this stage and might provide a good basis for winding down the syndication wars"

Tim Bray, Inventor

"Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done"

Vance Packard, Writer

"Fred Astaire is my hero. I love him because he was willing to kill himself to make his art look effortless. And because he proved it's possible to be an artist and a good person"

Connie Willis, Writer

"Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go"

K. D. Lang, Musician

"To me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it"

Noah Taylor, Actor

"If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right"

Maxwell Anderson, Playwright

"I did 14 movies in six years, I had a cartoon TV show, and I don't want to do that again. I just want to make unique pieces of art. That's why I quit everything when I was 14 and sat around for eight years before I did another movie"

Macaulay Culkin, Actor

"I don't know much about modern art, but I guess I am modern art"

Gloria Trevi, Musician

"Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things"

Bell Hooks, Critic

"In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution"

Bela Bartok, Composer

"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"

Nick Cave, Musician

"I was born first to music. But I went into acting because my father knew so much about music he intimidated me. So, I picked an art form, he knew nothing about. So I could be my own man"

Michael Moriarty, Actor

"Motherhood in all its guises and permutations is more art than science"

Melinda M. Marshall

"Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included... something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. It's a Gigantic project"

Joseph Beuys, Artist

"The House of Commons is a great unwieldy body, which requires great Art and some Cordials to keep it loyal"

Henry Pelham, Statesman

"It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art"

Hans-Georg Gadamer, Philosopher

"The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science; the leading edge in beauty is in high art"

Edward Tufte, Educator

"By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound"

Angelus Silesius, Poet

"The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class"

Louis Dudek, Poet

"Art is anything people do with distinction"

Louis Dudek, Poet

"The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it"

Joshua Reynolds, Artist

"Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art"

Frederic Chopin, Composer

"All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer"

Robert Owen, Writer

"Cedric Gibbons was the grand cardinal of the art department"

Vincente Minnelli, Director

"I admire a person who, for the love of art, is able to take off their clothes in front of a camera. But I'm not capable, I'm too cowardly for that"

Shakira, Musician

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