Top 496 Art Quotes

For me, art is supposed to be a question mark.

By the time we got to MGM, and Lions Gate the movie was done there was nothing else to say. It was done. Just as at Universal, it was art by committee.

It would make me feel that creative art has a chance in this crazy world that we all live in.

I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books.

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.

I think art doesn't have to be created in a period of misery, but it certainly helps.

I admire writers who succeed at what I consider the first demand of art: that the artist vivisect himself without pity, without hesitation, determined to reveal whatever he might find.

I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history.

Ah, well, do I wish that we lived in a world where gender didn't figure so prominently? Of course. Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not.

I feel like I have at least begun to make a contribution, but my most significant concern has to do with whether my actual art will be preserved for future generations or be erased.