Life is more important than art; that's what makes art important. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
I like to convey the idea that art is important in everyday life. — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
You have to be polite with your friends and your family, but in your art, it's important to not be polite. — Lisa Yuskavage Copy Share Image
The modern world thinks of art as very important: something close to the meaning of life. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I just feel that art is more important than ever, that art is something that can unify us, that can make America… — Hector Tobar Copy Share Image
...combining the concrete and the universal is at the center of what makes art important. — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
My parents thought art was important and a lot of my childhood was spent doing some form of it or another. — Jason Becker Copy Share Image
“Art is only important to the extent that it aids in the liberation of our people.” — Elizabeth Catlett Copy Share Image
Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for. — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
I've never had anything in my life that I could create that felt more valuable than music. It is just art, but… — Declan McKenna Copy Share Image
I got a pouch at Chelsea Market in NYC that says, 'Art Is More Important Than Math.' It has pencils and a… — Adrienne C. Moore Copy Share Image
“In which, if any, of these constitutions do we find the art of ruling being practiced in the actual government of men?… — Plato Copy Share Image
I was brought up feeling that art is a very important part of one's life. It's something that I not only enjoy,… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
Once, Picasso was asked what his paintings meant. He said, “Do you ever know what the birds are singing? You don’t. But… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
People are craving this great progress in electronics, going after computers, the Internet, etc. It's a giant progress technologically. But they must… — Mstislav Rostropovich Copy Share Image
One thing living in Japan did for me was to make me feel that what is left out of a work of… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
As long as I don't have to compromise my art, that's the most important thing. It doesn't matter if I'm famous or… — Snoh Aalegra Copy Share Image
Encouraging young people to believe in themselves and find their own voice whether it's through writing, drama or art is so important… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Ivy [Wilkes] does exhibit a certain impatience at the beginning of the book [The Dissemblers]. She doesn't want to wait through years… — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
“Art is too important a term to be used just for painters. And sculptors. And playwrights. And actors. And architects of a… — Emily P. Freeman Copy Share Image
The art is more important than the artist. The work is more important than the person who does it. You must be… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
If people lacked the capacity to receive the thoughts of the men who preceded them and to pass on to others their… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
This is the thing: Art is more important than making a show, something that amuses people. Art is something that needs to… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
...treasure what it means to do a day's work. It's our one and only chance to do something productive today, and it's… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for. It’s my… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
“Art has to be a kind of confession. I don’t mean a true confession in the sense of that dreary magazine. The… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“If other people thought art was important, then it would be required to graduate. But no, I don’t have to take art.… — Laura Ruby Copy Share Image
“There is one question George is asked about life and art and which is more important, and George said art is more… — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it. Robert Motherwell Every man becomes, to a certain… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
“Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe… Our… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
I think, on one end, we need to understand that goalkeeping is an art and is also a very important position to… — Edwin van der Sar Copy Share Image
When comparing works of art, it is important that the art itself, and not the artists, be considered. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no… — Stephen Stills Copy Share Image
Art is the most important thing to me in the entire world. It is my passion. Nothing else. End of story. — Sarah Lacy Copy Share Image
One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image