All Quotes

Art is fun to buy.
‐‐ Jessica Jackley

Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.
‐‐ Jerry Saltz

Art is good but it isn't the best.
‐‐ Jose Bergamin

Art is head space that is very exclusive: it shuts people out; other people cease to exist.
‐‐ Michel Faber

Art is I; science is we.
‐‐ Claude Bernard

Art is important because when people start to forget, art reminds them what happened. Like 'Guernica.' People would not remember the tragedy of Guernica today if it were not for that painting.
‐‐ Fernando Botero

Art is inspiring. Walking into a gallery, or when the lights go up on a stage; that thrill of getting something that has nothing to do with acquisition.
‐‐ Sadie Jones

Art is interesting because there can be so many different perspectives in a piece of art. The way I see it may be completely different than the way somebody else sees it. It's interesting to hear what somebody sees in a piece of art compared to somebody else. It could be completely different, and that's interesting to me.
‐‐ Joakim Noah

Art is kind of the lens through which I think about God.
‐‐ Dan Colen

Art is life's dream interpretation.
‐‐ Otto Rank

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.
‐‐ Lincoln Steffens

Art is like a stock with a decent return for people in finance, and they get to feel like they are involved with culture, spend time with artists, as part of their dividend.
‐‐ Rachel Kushner

Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.
‐‐ John Updike

Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.
‐‐ Yoko Ono

Art is longer than life.
‐‐ Lee Strasberg

Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.
‐‐ Anselm Kiefer

Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on what luck, the paint, the typo, the dissonance, give you. Without art you're stuck with yourself as you are and life as you think life is.
‐‐ Mark Vonnegut

Art is made to disturb, science reassures.
‐‐ Georges Braque

Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic.
‐‐ Hans Hofmann

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
‐‐ Theodor Adorno

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
‐‐ Frank Zappa

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
‐‐ Chinua Achebe

Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death.
‐‐ Leonard Baskin

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.
‐‐ Henry A. Kissinger

Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.
‐‐ Philip James Bailey

Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, even if only in the art of living.
‐‐ Philippe Petit

Art is messy, art is chaos - so you need a system.
‐‐ Andrew Stanton

Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
‐‐ Rita Mae Brown

Art is more engaging that propaganda.
‐‐ Larry Norman

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.
‐‐ Robert Motherwell

Art is much more confined by materials than writing is.
‐‐ Molly Crabapple

Art is my life and my life is art.
‐‐ Yoko Ono

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
‐‐ Malcolm de Chazal

Art is never finished, only abandoned.
‐‐ Leonardo da Vinci

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
‐‐ Leo Tolstoy

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
‐‐ Jean Cocteau

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
‐‐ John Ruskin

Art is not a thing; it is a way.
‐‐ Elbert Hubbard

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.
‐‐ Franklin D. Roosevelt

Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.
‐‐ Julia Cameron

Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity.
‐‐ Modest Mussorgsky

Art is not an investment. Art is something you buy because you are financially solvent enough to give yourself a pleasure of living with great works rather than having to just see them in museums. People who are buying art at the top of the market as an investment are foolish.
‐‐ Arne Glimcher

Art is not boosterism, it's not propaganda, and it's not spin, but that's not something that art does, and nor has it historically ever done it.
‐‐ Junot Diaz

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
‐‐ Nikki Giovanni

Art is not in some far-off place. A work of art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability.
‐‐ Shinichi Suzuki

Art is not journalism. In art, you don't make it to convey a message.
‐‐ Pawel Pawlikowski

Art is not living. It is the use of living.
‐‐ Audre Lorde

Art is not meant to change the world.
‐‐ JR

Art is not meant to change the world, but when you see people interacting, when you see an impact on their lives, then I guess in a smaller way, this is changing the world. So, that's what I believe in. That's why I'm into creating more and more interactions.
‐‐ JR

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
‐‐ Friedrich Nietzsche