Top 496 Art Quotes

I think there is a hunger for things that wake you up, something that makes you peel back your eyes, that reminds you that you are alive. Art is at its best when it is in the 'now.'

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

Jazz is the art of thinking out loud.

I don't want to be a didactic voice. I like to ask more questions than I answer, just to get people thinking and to make it safe to access art.

Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.

From afar, I have cried watching my nation, sore with prejudice, slowly heal itself. I hurt along with America, my phantom pains only alleviated by work I do every day - art.

I respect artists so much, and I absolutely love music as the ultimate art.

We will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that's much closer to art and literature than any science.

The picture is a self-sufficient work of art. It is not connected to anything outside.

For me, there has always been a disconnect with the sort of elitist structure of the high-art world - and my distaste for that is at odds with my feeling that art should aspire to do great things.