Art Quote by Billy Childish

Every attempt, by whatever authority, to fix a maximum of productive labor by a given worker in a given time is an unjust restriction…

— Nicholas Murray Butler

What some people term Freedom is nothing else than a liberty of saying and doing disagreeable things. It is but carrying the notion a…

— William Shenstone

I think that the essence of being an artist is to break rules. You have to learn rules, and you have to break them,…

— Johann Johannsson

No person whose entire time is spent in the contemplation of limitation can demonstrate freedom from such limitation.

— Ernest Holmes

I will not make anymore boring art.

— John Baldessari

At that time, the academic orientation was rather technical contrary to that of the university, where art theory is very important. The teachers were…

— Ralph Allen

Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.

— Rudolf Arnheim

“Among the hardest problems an art theory faces are questions about how to settle art’s meaning through interpretation”

— Cynthia Freeland

A saboteur in the house of art and a comedienne in the house of art theory, Lawler has spent three decades documenting the secret…

— Jerry Saltz

“What you don't learn in art theory is how too big a compliment can hurt more than a slap to the face.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

I try to write art theory down and understand it but I'm not a writer. I don't want to impress people with my writing.…

— Damian Loeb

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

— Edmund Burke