Romantic art is always stylized: the better the art, the cleaner and more attractive and intelligent the stylization. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I have drawn people's attention to the fact that art is a mirage. A mirage, just like the oasis that appears in… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
...art is something subversive. It's something that should not be free. Art and liberty, like the fire of Prometheus, are things that… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
A piece of art is never a finished work. It answers a question which has been asked, and asks a new question. — Robert Engman Copy Share Image
I don't like getting hit for one, although you know I did take Aikido for many years, but Aikido is a different… — Maurice Ashley Copy Share Image
Thoughts and emotions which never perhaps were in the mind of the artist, never were anticipated, never were intended by him -… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
Art is eternally young, but the poet ages. If only he remained as young as art! If only it aged with him! — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Writing a film - more precisely, adapting a book into a film - is basically a relentless series of compromises. The skill,… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
Most contemporary artists are behind the bubble in time. They're making videos that are so incredibly boring compared to a good movie.… — Alex Katz Copy Share Image
Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
I don't doubt that at the dawn of martial arts, the main goal was to beat up one's opponents in the most… — Daniele Bolelli Copy Share Image
ART is domination. It's making people think that for that precise moment in time there is only one way, one voice. Yours. — Maria Callas Copy Share Image
I think art is the ability to change people with your work, to see things as they are and then create stories,… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The main thing for inner contentment is to be in a state of grace. And there is an artistic state of grace,… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
What makes a good work of art is something that honors certain traditions and breaks with others. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
All great art is an imperfect, halting attempt to catch up upon life. — John Edgar Park Copy Share Image
It is not quite accurate to say that the objective of art is to represent what happens to us as a consequence… — Peter London Copy Share Image
Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man… — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
Money is something that can be measured; art is not. It's all subjective. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Growing up, I didn't have a family of creatives. I didn't have knowledge that becoming an artist was an option. I'm not… — Kesh Copy Share Image
A work of art is an echo chamber which repeats what people say about it. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The damnable thing about bad art is that the insincerity which lies at its roots is not perceived by the artist himself. — Quentin Bell Copy Share Image
I think art is the development of this interface between mind and matter, between mind and phenomenon, between what's inside of us… — Vik Muniz Copy Share Image
Magic is a combination of art and science. It's an art because of the traditional parts of things, the graceful gestures, the… — Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki Copy Share Image
The way I make art, the way a lot of people make art, is as an extension of language and communication, where… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
An ad that pretends to be art is -- at absolute best -- like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
In our culture, imitation-based experience dominates reality-based experience. I find this an awful thing. But there are artists who know from the… — Richard Tuttle 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 think didactic art is boring. I mean, I love it in terms of, like, some of the historical precedents that I've… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
The greatness of art is not in the display of knowledge, or in material accuracy, but in the distinctness with which it… — George Inness Copy Share Image
