Real art must always involve some witchcraft.

“Art—real art—connects artists, and their art, and those who experience their art, to the metaphysical background of the world, to the imaginal world that…

— Stephen Harrod Buhner

Making reality real is art's responsibility. It is a practical assignment, then, a self-assignment: to achieve, by a cultivated sensitivity for observing life, a…

— Eudora Welty

If you cannot learn to love real art at least learn to hate sham art.

— William Morris

Exposure to the reproductions [of Corbis-owned fine art photographs] is likely to increase rather than diminish reverence for the real art and encourage more…

— Bill Gates

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

— Ezra Pound

I would like the whole world to be full with authentic art, throbbing with it, living with it, because that is the only way:…

— Rajneesh

I think there is a real art to walkabouts.

— Kate Middleton

Before the money or anything, number one, it was just to put out real music, real stuff with a passion, real art.

— Lil B

I try to use models at least for the main characters because of the nature of my art. I tend to focus on the…

— Floyd Cooper

James Franco has turned his life into a real art project. In my opinion, that's the way to live.

— Fred Armisen

Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it'll be good, and the…

— John Wayne

That's what New York is like - you can't have real art happen in an institution because rich people can make the world stop.…

— M.I.A

The real art is in the street, is making the artwork, and for that you have to involve people. The action is actually the…

— JR

You'll need to suffer to make any real art.

— Chuck Palahniuk

The fact that cartoons are reproduced doesn't mean anything to me as far as whether they are "real art" or not.

— Roz Chast