Great art is not instant. It comes from experience, it comes from a place within. If you're trying to generate material, then… — Keenen Ivory Wayans Copy Share Image
In my opinion in art nothing can go too far as long as you don't physically hurt people or animals. Art is… — Tom Six Copy Share Image
What I think is dreadful about art is the way it's related to the money afterward. Not when you do it... But… — Chantal Akerman Copy Share Image
Perhaps, the highest pleasure in art is identical with the highest pleasure in scientific theory. The emotion which accompanies the clear recognition… — Roger Fry Copy Share Image
All art is concerned with coming into being; for it is concerned neither with things that are, or come into being by… — Aristotle 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
Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The… — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
The not-knowing is crucial to art, is what permits art to be made. Without the scanning process engendered by not-knowing, without the… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
Dancing is a very living art. It is essentially of the moment, although a very old art. A dancer's art is lived… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
The reason I make art is because I get to make a choice about who I am, what I do, and what… — Ben Sollee Copy Share Image
Art is not fashionable. That's why fashion and art are two different things. Fashion can never be art because fashion deals with… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist. — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
It is worth remembering that every writer begins with a naively physical notion of what art is. A book for him or… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Let me see: art and activism. I can always fall back on, "the question should be, what isn't political? Everything you do… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
I have not attempted to try to relive or recreate the past; but I have sought guidance from those timeless elements in… — Frederick Hart Copy Share Image
All art is probably erotic in its ultimate character, but painting more than anything else is a purely nervous erotic activity. — Patrick Swift Copy Share Image
Art is the suitcase of history, carrying the essentials. Art is the life buoy of history. Art is seed, art is memory,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Art is a way you discover the past, and so it brings the past into the present and the future. That's why… — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
If art is to have a special train, the critic must keep some seats reserved on it. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Art is a reflection on life. Life isn’t something we can cut and fix. It’s always in a state of flux. — El Anatsui Copy Share Image
