Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
As far as I can tell the only thing worth looking at in most museums of art is all the schoolgirls on… — Banksy Copy Share Image
Art is an affirmation of life, a rebuttal of death. And here we blunder into paradox again, for during the creation of… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
For me, art is about learning and about living with people. It's alive. — Miuccia Prada Copy Share Image
Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The complete and definitive work of art is created beyond one's individuality... ...The universal transcends such a level. Mere spontaneity has never… — Theo van Doesburg Copy Share Image
Art is violent. To be decisive is violent. ... To place a chair at a partial angle on the stage destroys every… — Anne Bogart Copy Share Image
The apex of perfection in equestrian art is not an exhibition of a great deal of different airs and movements by the… — Nuno Oliveira Copy Share Image
After all, if you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you also have to believe that no one… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
Believing that art is either worth a fortune or worth nothing at all. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
It is true that there are not many smiling faces in modern art galleries. Happy art is much harder to make. Art… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
The real function of art is to change mental patterns ... making new thought possible. — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums. — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
When you say documentary, you have to have a sophisticated ear to receive that word. It should be documentary style, because documentary… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
The durational aspect of video art is very different from photography or sculpture. The idea of looping things interferes with that a… — Marco Brambilla Copy Share Image
Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
It is a pity to make a mystery out of what should most easily be understood. There is nothing occult about the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“But art is not simply works of art; it is the spirit that knows Beauty, that has music in its being and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Your art is part of the big painting of your life. You are on your own, standing by yourself in the middle… — Michele Cassou Copy Share Image
Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I think that my responsibility to my art is to try to get it right or to push the boundaries of what… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics. — August Wilson Copy Share Image
For most people, art is only valuable if other people say it is; and artists are only worthwhile if they are either… — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality?… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
Art is arbitrary but it sort of reveals itself to be right or wrong anyway. — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change. It can not only move us,… — Ossie Davis Copy Share Image
The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In my sculpture, it's not an image I am seeking, it's not an idea. My goal is to re-live a past emotion.… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
Art is the only thing that helps people stay alive, and it is the only thing that has allowed people to create… — Juliette Lewis Copy Share Image
I don't play the lottery. I don't care what my horoscope says. I think most things about the world could be improved… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
My notion of art is very maximalist and souped-up: I love spectacle, overload, magic materials, magic words, incantation and litany, incarnation and… — Joyelle McSweeney Copy Share Image
