Art Quotes · Page 220

Words such as truth, art, veracity, or anything are stupid in themselves.

— Marcel Duchamp

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

— Rebecca West

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

— Madonna Ciccone

The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.

— Frank Gehry

We lose ourselves in stories; that's the beauty of literary art.

— Siri Hustvedt

The work of art of the future will be the construction of a passionate life.

— Raoul Vaneigem

“I suppose it has been said that art sometimes benefits from a touch of madness”

— Ahdaf Soueif

The criminal, like the artist, is a social explorer.

— Anonymous

I am against limitations like perspective. Perspective is illusion, it's the opposite of presence, and art is presence.

— Pierre Soulages

I'm not an experimental artist. I have no talent for that. I need a certain kind of antecedent form to follow.

— Tony Kushner

It is fatal for art if it is forced into official respectability and condemned to sterile mediocrity.

— Gustave Courbet

Anybody auditions for X-Factor it's because they want to be famous, not because they are artists.

— Bruce Dickinson

“Assassination is an art, milord, and I am the city’s most accomplished artist - Durzo Blint”

— Brent Weeks

I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.

— Sam Taylor-Wood

Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts.

— William Cowper

“Asked if she was a feminist, Louise said she wasn't sure, but she was a woman--her art couldn't help reflecting that.”

— Jan Greenberg

Creating artworks, writing and publishing novels, poetry, music, or conducting art-historical research requires support. So does everything else in the world, from…

— Trevor Paglen

When you step inside a set and transform into a character, it's your first brush with that role. It doesn't matter who…

— Aditi Rao Hydari

Creativity is the quality that you bring to the activity that you are doing. It is an attitude, an inner approach -…

— Rajneesh

I'm selfish, I think. I think an artist has to be. I'm not worried about what people think. I play the parts…

— Denzel Washington

When people say that L.A. doesn't have a culture, I think it really does: a very old culture, and very specific. There's…

— Fred Armisen

“You teach the reader that he’s way smarter than he thought he was. I think one of the insidious lessons about TV…

— David Foster Wallace

I'm not sure I would call it agony but there is a kind of cyclic frustration. You get one story right and…

— George Saunders

I get kind of tired of the "But it's your life!" attitude about memoir. I wrote. I engaged in artistic production. I…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.

— Bernard Berenson

Color will play no part in the art of future.

— Gunter Brus

The poem is a structure of signifiers which absorbs and reconstitutes the signified.

— Jonathan Culler

To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Everything we do helps the new artists in the long run.

— Ice T

Art is freedom. If you defend art, you defend freedom.

— Rithy Panh

There is no joy nobler than suffering for the sake of love for man.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

It's important for a gospel artist not to try to be mainstream.

— Kirk Franklin

I'm convinced that technology and art go together - and always have, for centuries.

— David Hockney

I've been able to become an entrepreneur and an independent artist.

— Mya

I learnt martial arts from a Japanese teacher.

— Bob Christo

Art is a way of expression that has to be understood by everyone, everywhere.

— Rufino Tamayo

Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Some say art is our highest form of hope. . . . Perhaps it's our only hope.

— Roma Tearne

I get a little sick of myself as a solo artist. I get a little bit bored.

— Juliana Hatfield

I have a pretty expanded view of what art is. I include pop music and even some sports.

— Elizabeth Price