Top 496 Art Quotes

Art is the most beautiful of all lies.

Art is the most beautiful of all lies.

Claude Debussy

If you have good songs and a real desire to make music, the next thing to do, instead of approach record companies, is to get yourself a really good manager because then it allows you to focus on your profession of being a musician. Then they can focus on the darker art of the record label and the music industry.

James Blunt

Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think about him a hell of a lot.

Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think about him a hell of a lot.

Barbara Kruger

The practice of medicine is a thinker's art the practice of surgery a plumber's.

The practice of medicine is a thinker's art the practice of surgery a plumber's.

Martin H. Fischer

Imagine if all those kings and dukes hadn't commissioned those crazy cathedrals, paintings and music... we'd still be living in sticks and mud. Because none of those things made any economic sense. Human beings' capacity to 'waste time' is a miracle - but that's exactly what art is for.

Ha-Joon Chang

As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.

As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.

Ha-Joon Chang

I made it about a three-day weekend so people wouldn't have to change their clothes a lot. We didn't have an art department; we didn't have a make-up department.

I made it about a three-day weekend so people wouldn't have to change their clothes a lot. We didn't have an art department; we didn't have a make-up department.

John Sayles

If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social change. It's not what it's for.

If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social change. It's not what it's for.

Salman Rushdie

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

Jean Cocteau

By itself, tofu is like wet foam rubber, but you'd no more eat it by itself and expect fine dining than you would stare at a blank canvas and expect to see fine art.

By itself, tofu is like wet foam rubber, but you'd no more eat it by itself and expect fine dining than you would stare at a blank canvas and expect to see fine art.

Victoria Moran

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