All Quotes

Art has to change things, and if it was immediately acceptable it would not be doing the job.
‐‐ Antony Gormley

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
‐‐ David Hockney

Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.
‐‐ Boris Pasternak

Art hath an enemy called Ignorance.
‐‐ Ben Jonson

Art helped give me confidence.
‐‐ Jeff Koons

Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the paint. Many scholars believe his work intentionally provides clues to a powerful secret... a secret that remains protected to this day by a clandestine brotherhood of which Da Vinci was a member.
‐‐ Dan Brown

Art history became an A-level option at my school the year I started sixth form. This happened because another student and I cajoled and bullied the head of the art department into arranging it with the examination board.
‐‐ Sarah Hall

Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.
‐‐ Robert Smithson

Art history looks at art works and the people who have created them.
‐‐ Susan Vreeland

Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.
‐‐ Gwendolyn Brooks

Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
‐‐ Muhammad Iqbal

Art imitates life and, sometimes, life imitates art. It's a weird combination of elements.
‐‐ Bruce Willis

Art imitates life. It's definitely helpful to feel that way. You feel that way when you're leading a show and you're on a set.
‐‐ Emily Rose

Art imitates life. Life imitates high school.
‐‐ Brad Holland

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.
‐‐ Stephen Sondheim

Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.
‐‐ Robert Delaunay

Art in the classroom not only spurs creativity, it also inspires learning.
‐‐ Mickey Hart

Art, in the first place, has to connect with yourself.
‐‐ Andrew Brown

Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live.
‐‐ Remy de Gourmont

Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts.
‐‐ Laura Riding

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
‐‐ Andre Gide

Art is a continuum.
‐‐ Daryl Hall

Art is a critical component in a well-rounded education. Art is the level playing field - no matter how rich or poor, tall or short, pretty or ugly to the bone, if you can draw, you can find personal fulfillment and build self-confidence. Art is the highest achievement of mankind.
‐‐ Lynda Resnick

Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic.
‐‐ Marco Tempest

Art is a form of asset. Hedge-fund managers who have made money fast should diversify into other areas.
‐‐ Michael Steinhardt

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.
‐‐ Jean Arp

Art is a habit-forming drug. Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth. People always speak of it with this great, religious reverence, but why should it be so revered?
‐‐ Marcel Duchamp

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
‐‐ Paul Cezanne

Art is a kind of illness.
‐‐ Giacomo Puccini

Art is a liaison between some sort of deranged mentality and others who are not going through it.
‐‐ John Chamberlain

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
‐‐ Pablo Picasso

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
‐‐ Jean Cocteau

Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
‐‐ Yoko Ono

Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.
‐‐ Kenneth Tynan

Art is a process of delivering or arranging elements that appeal to the emotions of a person looking at it. It's what you feel.
‐‐ Shaquille O'Neal

Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.
‐‐ Benjamin Haydon

Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.
‐‐ Andre Malraux

Art is a sense of magic.
‐‐ Stan Brakhage

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
‐‐ Khalil Gibran

Art is a subject that is inundated with opinions. In fact, that's all it is about is opinions.
‐‐ Chick Corea

Art is a subjective thing, and it should be a subjective thing. And the difficulty of subjectivity is that it becomes hugely problematized when you start applying large sums of money to art objects. That's where it all starts to get a bit sticky.
‐‐ Tim Crouch

Art is a thing where, the least likely thing that you think is going to be art, is precisely the thing that is going to be art. And I would even hold that true to a reality television show... maybe the entire overarching process of the show actually exists as an artistic structure.
‐‐ Richard Phillips

Art is a tool by which society extends its perception.
‐‐ Arne Glimcher

Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.
‐‐ Russell Simmons

Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious.
‐‐ Corin Nemec

Art is about imagination. When you look at a picture from Salvador Dali, that's about imagination. When you look at Picasso, that's about imagination. Doing stuff from your heart.
‐‐ LL Cool J

Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
‐‐ Rachel Kushner

Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.
‐‐ Jeff Koons

Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss.
‐‐ Scott Thompson

Art is about the 'I' in life not the 'we', about private life rather than public. A public life that doesn't acknowledge the private is a life not worth having.
‐‐ Richard Eyre