I like to convey the idea that art is important in everyday life. — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
When art becomes merely shock value, our sense of humanity is slowly degraded. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
That's what art is: escaping everyday normality, which wants to eat you alive. — Stefano Benni Copy Share Image
We want Realism's wealth of experience and Symbolism's depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
I don't see what else you can spend your money on... If you want to own things, art is a pretty good… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
My art is about paying attention – about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art, — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
Life is a shitstorm, in which art is our only umbrella." (spoken by character in a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa) — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
It is quite possible that the truest and most eloquent art is a successful fusion of both the visible and visionary worlds,… — Edward Betts Copy Share Image
All art is the tension, expressed between the uncontainable and its one perfect inevitable form. — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you… — Warren Adler Copy Share Image
Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance. — Max Eastman Copy Share Image
Culture as art is the peak expression of man's creativity, his capacity to break out of nature's narrow bounds, and hence out… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Design is interesting because it's utopian. Art is often a jaundiced commentary on contemporary life. Design is always about the future; it's… — Momus Copy Share Image
The primary function of art is not to imitate or represent or interpret, but to create a living thing; it is the… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
The educational aspect of art shows has become overbearing: some of exhibits can leave you bleary from trying to read the walls.… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Train the body and develop stamina and endurance. But the spirit of competition and power that presides over them is not good,… — Taisen Deshimaru Copy Share Image
No, I never had any dreams. The process of art is a dream in itself. The artist just doesn't... you work out… — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most demanding trick in all of art is to know ways that are going to capture the attention of an… — Brian Boyd 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
It is not expensive to be beautiful. It takes only a little effort to be presentable and beautiful. But it takes some… — Imelda Marcos Copy Share Image
Most conservatives know better than to promote the state funding of art. The result of such funding is the mess that modern… — Gary North Copy Share Image
This deliberately nurtured hatred then spreads to all that is alive, to life itself, to the world with its colors, sounds, and… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The edge of a painting is its frontier... where the artist negotiates his boundaries with the real world... where art begins and… — Andrew Graham-Dixon Copy Share Image
Contemporary art is based on that an artist is supposed to go into art history in the same way as an art… — Odd Nerdrum Copy Share Image
ART Art is that thing having to do only with itself—the product of a successful attempt to make a work of art.… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
In the long run, you have to have patience and integrity and a plan. You can't compromise your vision. I'm a bit… — Einar Selvik Copy Share Image
We both [with Jo Andres] think that it is really important to our culture that we support all kinds of music, all… — Steve Buscemi Copy Share Image
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