All Quotes

Art is about the messy and marvelous business of coming to your senses - and also, to the senses of the world.
‐‐ Michael Leunig

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.
‐‐ Gunter Grass

Art is all a matter of personality.
‐‐ Marcel Duchamp

Art is all about the experience. I could say I don't really relate to opera, but then you watch Placido Domingo, and you go, 'Blimey, look at that.'
‐‐ David Harewood

Art is all in the details.
‐‐ Christian Marclay

Art is always a search for understanding, and the different levels and frequencies of that search feel completely comfortable and natural to me.
‐‐ Doug Aitken

Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.
‐‐ Fernando Botero

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
‐‐ Karl Marx

Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.
‐‐ Ville Valo

Art is always good. It just depends if you like or not.
‐‐ Ziggy Marley

Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.
‐‐ Len Wein

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.
‐‐ Simone de Beauvoir

Art is an expression of who we are, what we believe, and what we dream about.
‐‐ Julianne Moore

Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures.
‐‐ Kim Cattrall

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
‐‐ Octavio Paz

Art is an investigation.
‐‐ Twyla Tharp

Art is anything people do with distinction.
‐‐ Louis Dudek

Art is anything you can get away with.
‐‐ Marshall McLuhan

Art is art, and journalism is journalism.
‐‐ Lance Reddick

Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.
‐‐ Ad Reinhardt

Art is based on very clear, mathematical principles like proportion and harmony. At the same time, physicists need to be inventive, to have ideas, to have some fantasy.
‐‐ Fabiola Gianotti

Art is basically communication, and I think everyone who's a music lover has had that experience where a record or a recording has kept you company when no one else is around. And I think that is what I'm hoping that people get out of my music.
‐‐ Conor Oberst

Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction.
‐‐ John Chamberlain

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.
‐‐ Theophile Gautier

Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.
‐‐ John Ortberg

Art is changing. Again. Here. Now. Opportunities to witness this are rare, so attend and observe.
‐‐ Jerry Saltz

Art is collaboration: we are artists all over the world. I believe that people are always going to watch Hindi films... that's never going to die, but I think it's amazing that collaborations like that are happening.
‐‐ Priyanka Chopra

Art is commenting on what's going on around you in your life.
‐‐ Al Jourgensen

Art is competitive.
‐‐ Robert Duvall

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.
‐‐ Auguste Rodin

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.
‐‐ Max Beckmann

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.
‐‐ Duke Ellington

Art is difficult.
‐‐ Scott Thompson

Art is difficult. It's not entertainment.
‐‐ Anselm Kiefer

Art is doing. Art deals directly with life.
‐‐ Ruth Asawa

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
‐‐ Paul Gauguin

Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it can't express everything that man can, wants to, and has to express. I think God built this into man. Art along with science is the highest gift God has given him.
‐‐ Pope Benedict XVI

Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.
‐‐ Conor Oberst

Art is eternal, but life is short.
‐‐ Evelyn de Morgan

Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.
‐‐ Brandon Boyd

Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time.
‐‐ Emil Nolde

Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.
‐‐ Goldwin Smith

Art is expression; what is expressed is often the vision of a subtle and powerful soul, and also his experience with his vision; and however vivid and skilful he may be in the means of expression, yet it is frequently found that the master-spell in his work is something felt to be indefinable and inexpressible.
‐‐ George Edward Woodberry

Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money.
‐‐ Jerry Saltz

Art is for entertainment purposes, but it's also to reflect our dreams, our hopes, the present, the future the past - whether it's good or bad.
‐‐ Amber Valletta

Art is for everybody.
‐‐ Keith Haring

Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.
‐‐ Linda Ronstadt

Art is, for me, the process of trying to wake up the soul. Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep.
‐‐ Bill Viola

Art is for the elite because it has a very high price-point of entry. And when one is in that social strata, they look down at illustrators because they just draw things directly for a few hundred dollars, and that's seen as being a bit grubby. Galleries allow artists to stay relatively divorced from the financial aspects of their trade.
‐‐ Molly Crabapple

Art is forever.
‐‐ Thomas Kinkade