Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we've been having with painting. There's no way of looking at art as though you hadn't seen art before. Brian Eno artconversationexperience Change image and share on social
The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating. Jackson Pollock artistexpressfeeling Change image and share on social
Nature generally struggles against this treatment for a while, until her powers seem in a great measure exhausted, when she quietly yields to the power of the art. Robert Fortune artexhaustgenerally Change image and share on social
In Japan, you can learn how to make a bunch of flowers. This is an art. Tea ceremony, it's an art. Carine Roitfeld artbunchceremony Change image and share on social
The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal. George Santayana artefforteternal Change image and share on social
Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all. Thomas Fuller actionartecho Change image and share on social
I think there's a responsibility more as an artist to try and push in the direction you think comedy should go... The biggest thing I could do for the art that I love was keeping it art: keeping it special, keeping it honest, keeping it truthful. Jerrod Carmichael artartistbig share on social
We feel more and more intensely about the music we make. It's unexpected, and not always what you would think of in Beach House. It's all art in the end. We aren't making records because we have to; it's because it's what we want to express. Victoria Legrand artbeachend share on social
It was very hard breaking into the film industry in Britain. I had been to art school, and I was painting and doing commercials. And I did some of the very first rock videos. Tony Scott artbreakbritain Change image and share on social