Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Art is not a copy of the real world; one of the damn things is enough. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
Creativity is often blocked by trying to be perfect. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the… — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Copy Share Image
In fact I always disliked conceptual art, because my work is about anarchistic humor. — Dan Graham Copy Share Image
Art is about energy positive and negative. All art has the power to heal because it helps us see who we are,… — Shirley MacLaine 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
Art is amoral, whether we accept this or not; it does not take sides. The finest fictions are cold at heart. — John Banville Copy Share Image
The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Becoming mature is not important for art. Technical perfection is not relevant to art. Precision in art is only achieved by total… — Jonathan Meese 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
Filmmaking, like any other art, is a very profound means of human communication; beyond the professional pleasure of succeeding or the pain… — Kenneth Lonergan Copy Share Image
One of the first principles of decorative art is that in all manufactures ornament must hold a place subordinate to that of… — George Mason Copy Share Image
There's a market for art, and things are indeed going swimmingly, especially for German artists. But everything takes place in America and… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
Art is the inheritance of every individual, it activates evolutionary growth, it is an intellectual virtue, and the fostering principle for all… — Alonzo King Copy Share Image
By and large I think art is made by people who have discipline married to talent in sufficiently large amounts to work… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Art is about the context in which it is made as much as the object itself; objects take on different meanings in… — Matthew Slotover Copy Share Image
Think about it: you've already related it down to something that somebody else can understand. If art relates to something - it's… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling... The desire to grasp and be… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
We live in a world where art is always looked upon as the perfect medium. We live in a society where we… — Nicolas Winding Refn 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
The experience of the gangster as an experience of art is universal to Americans. There is almost nothing we understand better or… — Robert Warshow Copy Share Image
The academic teaching on beauty is false. We have been misled, but so completely misled that we can no longer find so… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
There is a good deal of art that in some traditions of conceptual work are anti-affect, in fact a very large chunk… — Laura Belem Copy Share Image
Art is a concrete and personal and rather childish thing after all - no matter what people do to graft it into… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
