Art is not an elitist gift for a few select people. Art is for everyone. — Richard Attenborough Copy Share Image
Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another. — Jim Dine Copy Share Image
Art is a game only if you playat it, a mirror that reflects from the inside out. — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
The power of art is not in communication but effect; what it does, not what it relates. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Art is never decoration, embellishment; instead, it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
True art is alive and inspired by humanity. I believe that art helps us to be free from aggression and depression. — Leonid Afremov Copy Share Image
Understand that the essence of martial arts is not the art itself, but what's hidden deep within yourself. — Gogen Yamaguchi Copy Share Image
Art is its own excuse, and it's either Art or it's something else. It's either a poem or a piece of cheese. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Football is the priority, even more than school. Art is frowned upon. I had to sneak music in. — Kevin McCall Copy Share Image
When I look at the 'Rocky Balboa' film when I played the undisputed heavyweight champion, I feel like art is going to… — Antonio Tarver Copy Share Image
Documentary: That’s a sophisticated and misleading word. And not really clear… The term should be documentary style… You see, a document has… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
I'm still totally going out and sleeping on people's floors so I can play a house show and give away music. Of… — Geoff Rickly Copy Share Image
The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
I know now that everybody in the arts is forever a beginner. Experience counts for a great deal and very little. Every… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
When any civilization is dust and ashes," he said, "art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I think art is much more about an engagement with the world, a way of being called upon and recognizing that the… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
The time is perhaps not altogether too green for the vile suggestion that art has nothing to do with clarity, does not… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Art leads to a more profound concept of life, because art itself is a profound expression of feeling. The artist is born,… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
We live in a time which has created the art of the absurd. It is our art. It contains happenings, Pop art,… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
What makes someone an artist? I don't think is has anything to do with a paintbrush. There are painters who follow the… — Seth Godin 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
I've never felt that I was doing something for my people, except what I could to bring the accomplishments of the old… — Bill Reid Copy Share Image
It [music] has an awakening function. Life is a rhythm. Art is an organization of rhythms. Music is a fundamental art that… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I guess maybe my art can be said to be a protest. I see things a certain way, and as an artist… — Nancy Spero Copy Share Image
It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image