Top 496 Art Quotes

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

Pierre Bonnard

I picked up the bass kind of postpunk-style. There's a real art to not learning how to play an instrument and being able to still play it.

I picked up the bass kind of postpunk-style. There's a real art to not learning how to play an instrument and being able to still play it.

Kim Gordon

Working on art, as opposed to being in a constant collaborative state, as in a band, is something that I've always done - to a smaller degree, but it always remained a part of my integral self.

Working on art, as opposed to being in a constant collaborative state, as in a band, is something that I've always done - to a smaller degree, but it always remained a part of my integral self.

Kim Gordon

There's a lesbian aesthetic, just as there's gay camp, but I don't know if there's such a thing as 'lesbian art.'

There's a lesbian aesthetic, just as there's gay camp, but I don't know if there's such a thing as 'lesbian art.'

Catherine Opie

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.

Steven Pinker

What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.

What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.

Urs Fischer

I personally want to work with great directors and great actors. My thing is about being inspired. You want money to come, but money doesn't always come with great art. At the end of the day, it's about being satisfied with yourself as a human being. It's important to me to try to make that happen.

Scott Cohen

Some people thought I was using my popularity as a singer to sell my first novel. For others, it was almost a sacrilege: a practitioner of a minor art daring to enter the field of high art.

Some people thought I was using my popularity as a singer to sell my first novel. For others, it was almost a sacrilege: a practitioner of a minor art daring to enter the field of high art.

Chico Buarque

People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it.

People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it.

Tony Kushner

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Miguel de Unamuno

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