Art Quote by Semir Zeki

This is the dialectic - there is a very short distance between high art and trash, and trash that contains an element of craziness…

— Douglas Sirk

Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place.

— Damien Hirst

In 1966, while working on a feature about a Picasso exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, I recorded the pre-opening preparations and…

— Micha Bar-Am

“I presume this is part of your erotic art collection?" she mused out loud. "It is most beautifully done; only look at the masterful…

— Tracy Anne Warren

“...indeed it is very true that, just as the finest air in the world is vulgarized beyond all bearing once the public has taken…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“Good thing about bad rubbish is you can make the stench go away just by covering it up. It never comes back as long…

— Neal Shusterman

“Her flat looked like a mess –a coloring mess. Once you enter it, you can feel like a person had eaten all the colors…

— Basma Salem

“I’ve found the safest place to store my valuables is in a trash sack. Unless I invite a bunch of hobos over one night,…

— Jarod Kintz

I have read - nay, I have bought! - Carlyle's 'Latter Day Pamphlets,' and look on my eight shillings as very much thrown away.…

— Anthony Trollope

“If this had been a public-school locker room, there would have been some gray jumbo-sized garbage cans nearby, and I probably could've taken care…

— James Ponti

There is in every artist's studio a scrap heap of discarded works in which the artist's discipline prevailed against his imagination.

— Robert Breault

“ 'Tell me, please,' Van Gogh asked, 'is it justifiable that a person wastes his only life by selling worthless paintings for fools? ”

— Irving Stone