Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries say, it's not great art for you. Yoko Ono artcriticgallery Change image and share on social
But only art and music have the power to bring peace. Yoko Ono artbringmusic Change image and share on social
Believe me, I love commerce as much as the rest of the readers of 'Businessweek.' But in art, you have to be true to yourself and your musical vision. People have known me well for a long time, so if I was chasing a trend and doing something that wasn't authentic to who I am, they would know it in just a few seconds. Lionel Richie artauthenticbusinessweek share on social
It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief. Lionel Trilling artdisbelieflife Change image and share on social
I'm awake as soon as the sun crests the eastern hills. I guess I'm motivated because I love just about everything about my life - the writing, the many critters, the art, and all the rest. Linda Lael Miller artawakecrest Change image and share on social
I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth. Lewis H. Lapham artcemeterydeductible Change image and share on social
Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because it assumes that it should make our lives better or teach us something. Laurie Anderson 19thartassume share on social
Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words. Laurie Anderson artfulljoy Change image and share on social
No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded. Lascelles Abercrombie artfoundpoet Change image and share on social
When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away? Oliver Goldsmith artbetraycharm Change image and share on social