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
