Top 496 Art Quotes

High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.

High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.

Diane Wakoski

Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk.

Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk.

Billy Idol

One can re-create what was in the mind of a mathematician a thousand years ago, recapture the truth of the intellect wherever it may have once come to light; but the image of art, that infinite variable of perception and expression in the individual, - that is not easily re-created, at least, not with certainty and in its original fulness.

George Edward Woodberry

I like people that challenge their art, not only in the purist way, but also in terms of how they could provoke and make something different.

I like people that challenge their art, not only in the purist way, but also in terms of how they could provoke and make something different.

Guy Laliberte

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

Stephen Fry

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.

Ralph Richardson

I do see myself as the heir to a vast, great, rich culture of painting - of art in general - which we have lost, but which places obligations on us.

I do see myself as the heir to a vast, great, rich culture of painting - of art in general - which we have lost, but which places obligations on us.

Gerhard Richter

In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage.

In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage.

Frank Capra

Why must art be static? You look at an abstraction, sculptured or painted, an entirely exciting arrangement of planes, spheres, nuclei, entirely without meaning. It would be perfect, but it is always still. The next step in sculpture is motion.

Alexander Calder

If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.

If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.

Alan Rickman

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