Top 496 Art Quotes

The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors.

I went to New York in 1974, to either try to get a record deal, get into the New York Art Student League, or be a dancer. So that was my plan. Some plan. And I had no money.

Charlie Parker and Art Tatum to me were genius, and I'm right below that. I did, in my own way, do something different on the instrument, and that's the way I'd like to be remembered.

Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another.

There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.

The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.

My life is in the art that I make, and I'm very happy with it.

You can turn something into art just because of the way you tell people to look at it.

My livelihood depends on the art of animators.

A living museum must surely see itself as a locus of argument. A breathing art institution is not a lockup but a moveable feast.