Acceptable Quote by Thomas Hoving

There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have…

— Ron Chernow

The definition of art has to shift whenever an innovator appears.

— Thomas Hoving

The definition of art has changed almost every day since the first artist created the first work at least fifty thousand years ago...

— Thomas Hoving

Every great work of art should be considered like any work of nature. First of all from the point of view of its aesthetic…

— Amedeo Modigliani

They are works of art that can be considered works of art but don't have to be in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum.

— Michael Heizer

Photography has always reminded me of the second child.. trying to prove itself. The fact that it wasn't really considered an art.. that it…

— Richard Avedon

The training of the mind is an art. If this can be considered art, one's life is art.

— Dalai Lama

“Since art is considered a noble field, art should be used to promote all that is good and noble, and in a noble fashion.”

— Anonymous

Journalism (definition): The art, or science, of representing life as a series of clichés.

— Richard Summerbell

Beauty plus pity -- that is the closest we can get to a definition of art.

— Vladimir Nabokov

Duchamp's urinal was art once he put it in a gallery. In fact, one working definition of art is anything that is in a…

— Matthew Slotover

Tolstoy's definition of art is the inverse of the truth; the task of art is to transform not perception into feeling, but feeling into…

— Raphael Soyer