If someone says it's art, it's art.

That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but…

— Hannah More

It's like art. Imagine you're an artist and someone shows up to your gallery and says, 'Your art sucks.' You're like, 'Damn, I put…

— Micah Parsons

“As Stravinsky says, art is nothing more than placing limits and working against them rigorously … and if we refuse to place them ……

— Robert Wachter

It's pretentious to say, but my art is like a little Zen story, a story with a question mark at the end. People can…

— Christian Boltanski

There is a claim coming from the West that says that all art must be outside any moral consideration. I can understand this as…

— Tariq Ramadan

“In the twentieth century, one encounters artworks that seek to cancel the difference between a real and an imagined reality by presenting themselves in…

— Niklas Luhmann

Usually when someone says a thing is too simple, they're saying that certain familiar things aren't there, and they're seeing a couple maybe that…

— Donald Judd

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

We must always work, and a self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood. If…

— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Art, if it is successful in the task of questioning reality, if it is good painting and not merely a performance of dexterity, will…

— Patrick Swift

When a young artist asks me a question, I want to do what I can to give them an answer if I have it…

— Michael Tait

“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it…

— Taf Teh

“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists…

— Justina Chen Headley

I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your…

— Aaron Rose

True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe