If I'm doing my job correctly, I'm presenting a scenario for you as the reader to engage with on your own. I… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
For the essential thing about the work of art is that it is work, and very hard work too. — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but rather the gradual, lifelong construction of a… — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
Art, because it's so easy to do, and yet so difficult to do well, encourages humility in the human soul. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Art is not about objects of high monetary exchange. It's about reasserting our firsthand experience in present time. — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing. — Nile Rodgers Copy Share Image
The pernicious influence of the prize and medal giving in art is so great that it should be stopped. History proves that… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is… — Corin Nemec Copy Share Image
As you may know, my motto is: "All memory is fiction." It could just as easily be: "All fiction is memory." Unpacked,… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in that direction.… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Which implies that the real issue in art is the audience's response. Now I claim that when I make things, I don't… — Richard Foreman Copy Share Image
What I love in art is that it takes known combinations and reorders them in a way that sheds light on something… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
All art is erotic. The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin. It was the first work… — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
The awesome thing about lettering - which is different from many forms of art - is that you can actually see your… — Jessica Hische Copy Share Image
We are the measure of all things. And the beauty of our creation, of our art is proportional to the beauty of… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for. — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
I usually don't mind movies that people think go overboard because that's what art is all about. Art is about pushing us… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
Art is in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
At the moment my art is situated between the pornographic tendency to reveal everything and the erotic inclination to hide what it's… — Marlene Dumas Copy Share Image
Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express. — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in the sport even as a young kid. I liked the sport of martial arts because I loved… — Brad Tavares 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
Abstract art is a creative interplay between the conscious and the unconscious, with the conscious mind making all the final decisions and… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
Art is inherently subversive. It’s destabilizing. It undermines what you already know and what you already think. It is the opposite of… — Deborah Eisenberg Copy Share Image
I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics… — Douglas Sirk Copy Share Image
Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural. — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level. — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
Art is a means to function thoroughly and passionately in a world that has a lot more to it than paint. — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
Art is a war - between ourselves and the forces of self-sabotage that would stop us from doing our work. The artist… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
It is a fine art because it strives for an ideal, not only in plastic but also in lyrical respect. — August Bournonville Copy Share Image
Music must be supported by the king and the princes, for the maintenance of the arts is their duty no less than… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
All martial art is simply an honest expression of one's body — with a lot of deception in between. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
What fiction and art can do, particularly narrative art, is construct consciousness - in a sense, we have to do it for… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
The reality of art is disclosed only in experience, not in reflection upon experience. — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
It should not be forgotten that art is not a science where the latest 'correct' theory declares the old to be false… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Art is a matter strictly of experience, not of principles and what counts first and last in art is quality, all other… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
Creative art is the power to be for a moment a flash of communication between God and man. — Ruth Sawyer Copy Share Image
