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Art Quotes by Barbara Kruger
- I think pictures and words have the power to make us rich or poor.
- Art is as heavy as sorrow, as light as a breeze, as bright as an idea, as pretty as a picture, as funny as money,…
- Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices…
- I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I…
- But I really resist categories – that naming is a closing down of meaning. Women's art, political art – those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind…
- The place of the arts in the classroom is essential in encouraging invention, ambition, and an understanding of the importance and pleasures of living an…
- Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think…
- Money talks. It makes art. It determines what food we eat, whether we are cured or die, and what shoes we wear.
- I remember going into galleries and seeing this thing called conceptual art, and I understand people's marginalization from what the art subculture is because if…
- Teaching at university isn't like teaching in an art school.
- You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.
- I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm…
- I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever.…
- Even when I was a little girl, I remember going to the Museum of Modern Art. I think my parents took me there once or…
More Art Quotes
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have… — Karen Armstrong
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't… — Arthur Ashe
- Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. — Isaac Asimov