I don't know what art is, but I do know what it isn't. And it isn't someone walking around with a salmon… — Brian Sewell Copy Share Image
If you can draw the stone rightly, everything within reach of art is also within yours. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery. — William Golding Copy Share Image
The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
I don't think there is room for 'artistic temperament.' Professional artists understand art is a business. If businesses ran their companies like… — Jack White Copy Share Image
Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I have a very, very good relationship with 10 percent of the audience. The only purpose of art is intimacy. That's the… — David Hare Copy Share Image
The allotted function of art is not, as is often assumed, to put across ideas, to propagate thoughts, to serve as an… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
I think it's misleading to think that art is only there for escapism, only there for our dreams of being rich and… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
One of the challenges to our nation today is overcoming the notion that art is kind of a nice-to-have, when in reality… — John Maeda Copy Share Image
The making of art is a profoundly social activity, even if it’s one-on-one with some sort of ideal reader who doesn’t exist. — August Kleinzahler Copy Share Image
Science, like nothing else among the institutions of mankind, grows like a weed every year. Art is subject to arbitrary fashion, religion… — Kary Mullis Copy Share Image
My fear of life is necessary to me, as is my illness. Without anxiety and illness, I am a ship without a… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
Long John I think went off the air in about '79 or something, so there was a hiatus. That's why I think… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
Performance art is really about the sociology of the artist, where ideas come from, and the confluence of those ideas. — Roselee Goldberg Copy Share Image
The swing of art is circular, from form to formalism, from formalism to formlessness, from formlessness to form again. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
A contemporary poet has characterized this sense of the personality of art and of the impersonality of science in these words,-'Art is… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
The power of art is not in communication but effect; what it does, not what it relates. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
If a work of art is to explore new environments, it is not to be regarded as a blueprint but rather as… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist. — Youssou N'Dour Copy Share Image
I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure. I think there is a contradiction in an art of total… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
The greatest art in life is to believe in Christ. That art is learned only in the Holy Spirit's school. — Christian Scriver Copy Share Image
