Pop Art is not painting because painting must have content and emotion. — Grace Hartigan Copy Share Image
Perhaps the least cheering statement ever made on the subject of art is that life imitates it. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Art is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Language is inherently not concerned with logic. As an expression of the psychological activities of humankind, it simply follows a linear process… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
Oscar Wilde quite rightly said, 'All art is useless'. And that may sound as if that means it's something not worth supporting.… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Van Gogh, among others, believed in the religion of art, which, whatever else it involved, made it clear that art is more… — Donald Kuspit Copy Share Image
Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Art is the one thing that's the universal virtue that you can have in any class. — Geoff Rickly Copy Share Image
Admittedly, art is somewhat like spit. It does not repulse or even worry is while it is still inside of us, but… — Ivan Brunetti Copy Share Image
What modern art means is that you have to keep finding new ways to express yourself, to express the problems, that there… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
Life is rapid, art is slow, occasion coy, practice fallacious, and judgment partial. — Henry Fuseli Copy Share Image
Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I believe that one of the most important properties of a work of art is an attempt to reconcile opposites, and in… — Douglas Portway Copy Share Image
All of the arts are kin - music and sculpture and dance, those are wordless art forms. But poetry is defined by… — Campbell McGrath Copy Share Image
Perhaps art is simply an organism's reaction against its retentive limitations. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I like nature but not its substitutes... Mondrian opposed art to nature saying that art is artificial and nature is natural. I… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
Art is the ability to communicate through an intermediary and to convey one's feelings through an isolated object. It's inspiration and incubation.… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
A total work of art is only possible in the context of the whole of society. Everyone will be a necessary co-creator… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image