Top 496 Art Quotes

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

H. L. Mencken

Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross.

Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross.

Stephen Stills

Art has to address eternal issues.

Art has to address eternal issues.

Duane Michals

We probably put about four or five comic books out a year and probably about two or three art books and various trade paperbacks - maybe four or five of those a year - and that's what we do now.

We probably put about four or five comic books out a year and probably about two or three art books and various trade paperbacks - maybe four or five of those a year - and that's what we do now.

Glenn Danzig

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Tom Wolfe

Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

Margaret Fuller

I'm extremely interested in art, every form of art, but I'm interested in it when it's good and interested in it when it's interesting.

I'm extremely interested in art, every form of art, but I'm interested in it when it's good and interested in it when it's interesting.

Brie Larson

I don't know very many people in the art world, only socialise with the few I like, and have little time to gnaw my nails with anxiety about any criticism I hear about.

I don't know very many people in the art world, only socialise with the few I like, and have little time to gnaw my nails with anxiety about any criticism I hear about.

Charles Saatchi

I think what makes the Byrds stand up all these years is the basis in folk music. Folk music, being a timeless art form, is the foundation of the Byrds. We were all from a folk background. We considered ourselves folk singers even when we strapped on electric instruments and dabbled in different things.

Roger McGuinn

I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art.

I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art.

Jerzy Kosinski

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