I don't *ever* write about real people. Art is supposed to…

Art is supposed to be about creativity. But the same people are the same art darlings every month, and it's a bit annoying. It's…

— M.I.A

I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters.

— Emily Giffin

I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.

— Jackie Collins

Overall, I think any opportunity to expose people to art on a mass level - to have some kid in Oklahoma say to his…

— Jeffrey Deitch

The designer of today re-establishes the long-lost contact between art and the public, between living people and art as a living thing.

— Bruno Munari

There is a lot that horses and art share in common. I have found that most horse people are art lovers, and vice versa.

— Alice Walton

I don't think you should ever damage other people for your art.

— Carey Mulligan

Through [my friends] I discovered what it was to love people. There was an art to it...which was not really all that different from…

— Lucy Grealy

This is the thing: Art is more important than making a show, something that amuses people. Art is something that needs to give to…

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

Only 10 percent of people who go to art school will still be making art in 10 years. To some extent, you have to…

— Jeffrey Brown

“We Communists say, if it has no practically measurable effect, it's not people's art!”

— William T. Vollmann

People would rather have art or gold instead of paper money.

— Eli Broad

My dark little secret is that I don't actually believe many people in the art world have much feeling for art.

— Charles Saatchi

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…

— Donald Judd

Art is not an elitist gift for a few select people. Art is for everyone.

— Richard Attenborough