There's a kind of perverseness or betrayal in that idea that art is somehow superior to life. Or that it's more important… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
The executive art is nine-tenths inducing those who have authority to use it in taking pertinent action — Chester Barnard Copy Share Image
The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and--prayer. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything… — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
I endeavor to trigger positive, empowering, life-giving emotion - I believe art is that powerful. — Gary Holland Copy Share Image
Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place. — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
Work is what you do for others, liebchen. Art is what you do for yourself. — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
The problem with cinema nowadays is that it's a math problem. People can read a film mathematically; they know when this comes… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Art is a creation of a higher order than a copy of nature which is governed by chance.... By the elimination of… — Paul Signac Copy Share Image
Why do we make records? Because we want to say something. Why are you in art? Because you want to say something.… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Art is not living. It is the use of living. The artist has the ability to take the living and use it… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I wasn't political enough to write articles about myself or go to cocktail parties, meaning that not only has my art been… — Michael Heizer Copy Share Image
We need to remind ourselves that contemporary art is first of all a form of conceptual gymnastics, in which we learn to… — Massimiliano Gioni Copy Share Image
All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I totally believe that art is an open dialogue and that it is not logical. It does not always make sense. — Lynda Benglis Copy Share Image
