Art is no crime. It's every artist's responsibility to make art that is meaningful — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image
The difference between fashion and art is that fashion is art in movement. — Carolina Herrera Copy Share Image
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it. — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
My opinion of art is that a man should have love for it, because my idea is that he paints from his… — Horace Pippin Copy Share Image
Art is what we do. Culture is what is done to us. A photograph of an art object is not the art… — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
This everyday world affects the way art is created as much as it conditions its response. — Allan Kaprow Copy Share Image
The subject matter of art is life, life as it actually is; but the function of art is to make life better. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I think all art is subjective - that whoever's watching it or listening to it will decide whether it's good or bad. — Billy Boyd Copy Share Image
The person who practices an art is an artist, not a samurai, and one should have the intention of being called a… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
I have found that long durational art is really the key to changing consciousness. On such a deep level. Not just the… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
Creativity ignited a spark. In that moment, I saw that art is not peripheral, beauty is not optional, but a strategy for… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
It occurred to me that every work of art is a synecdoche, there's no way around it. Every creative work that someone… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
I deny that art can be taught, or, in other words, maintain that art is completely individual, and that the talent of… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
Art is not an amusement, nor a distraction, nor is it, as many men maintain, an escape from life. On the contrary,… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
Some sort of pressure must exist; the artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
I have always loved music; whoso has skill in this art, is of a good temperament, fitted for all things. We must… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the… — Al Alvarez Copy Share Image
Vincent van Gogh was sane when he painted that piece of art, because when you you feel the mania and depression, you… — Paul Dalio Copy Share Image
What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Fashion rests upon folly. Art rests upon law. Fashion is ephemeral. Art is eternal. Indeed what is a fashion really? A fashion… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Every work of art causes the receiver to enter into a certain kind of relationship both with him who produced the art,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I believe that, your art is like a time capsule for where you were at, where your mentality was at, at that… — Jon Connor Copy Share Image
I think what's really interesting and useful about this question is that ultimately all art is a type of self-portraiture. And so… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
The woman who needs to create works of art is born with a kind of psychic tension in her which drives her… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; it is not, as the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
All art is propaganda. ... The only difference is the kind of propaganda. Since art is essential for human life, it can't… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
When we even use the term 'specialized world,' we already have a problem! We're making art; they are making art... these worlds… — Jennifer Higdon Copy Share Image
