Appreciative Quote by Bette Davis

I think people in the gay and straight worlds can get a sense of what it means to be an artist.

— Jill Eikenberry

Art is feminine... Look, if you're handsome and young and beautiful, well, people are always going to say that you're gay.

— Juan Gabriel

“Part of what attracts us to artists is their otherness, their refusal to conform, their big middle finger stuck up in the face of…

— Jesse Kellerman

If we investigate the vague feelings of the average man towards the arts, we find that he is timid and that he has developed…

— Walter Gropius

It may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it's also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts.

— Quentin Crisp

Critics of art are like eunuchs in harem. They see how it's done when the men come to see the women, but they can't…

— Gary Busey

Artists are on the average less happy than men of science.

— Bertrand Russell

“...hanging out does not make one an artist. A secondhand wardrobe does not make one an artist. Neither do a hair-trigger temper, melancholic nature,…

— David Rakoff

I think folks who are resistant to engaging in art become less so once they encounter art that really reflects them.

— Lynn Nottage

We have no problem making art that's almost obnoxiously gay.

— Chappell Roan

To allow only the kind of art that the average man understands is the worst small-mindedness and the murder of mind and spirit. It…

— Thomas Mann

Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people - more just, more moral, more sensitive, more…

— Paul Auster