Art Quotes

Art is always kind of snooping and listening in.

Svetlana Alexievich

ArtListeningKindAlways

The essential argument in the book, 'Art as Therapy,' is that art enjoys such financial and cultural prestige that it's easy to forget the confusion that persists about what it's really for.

Alain de Botton

ArtBookFinancialEasyArgument

Under Thatcher, who ruled us with an iron rod, great art was made. Amazing designers and musicians. Acid house was born. Very colourful and progressive.

Noel Gallagher

GreatArtAmazingMusiciansHouse

I profoundly feel that the art of living is the art of giving. You're fulfilled in the moment of giving, of doing something beyond yourself.

Laurance Rockefeller

ArtMomentYourselfGivingDoing

Children do have the potential to kill art. But now I think they kill the bad art. At least that is what my son has done for me.

Kevin Wilson

SonChildrenArtMeThinkPotential

There's not a lot of art forms where you can control your presentation and your ideas.

Gerard Way

ArtIdeasControlYouPresentation

I hate to sound like a romantic adolescent, but I believe artists don't generally see art as a career choice; they simply can't overcome their desire to make art, and will live on little income for as long as they have to, before they start to sell their work - or give up and get a paying job.

Charles Saatchi

WorkLiveArtRomanticHateJob

The world isn't all happy, shiny people, and great art doesn't come from vanilla. Great art comes from people with a point of view and are very passionate.

Scott Borchetta

GreatArtHappyPeopleWorldView

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

Rebecca West

WorkArtStartArtistArgumentMust

Perhaps... I mean there are people who defend that it as an art. I don't. I like it but it's not an art form as far as I'm concerned, and yet it's a similar thing, once you can't land those jumps, you're disqualified - that precludes it from ever becoming a serious art form.

Mark Morris

ArtPeopleYouSeriousLandMean

Wrestling needs to be about the art form again. It needs to be about painting a picture and having a really good match.

Hulk Hogan

GoodArtPaintingPictureWrestling

Geometry is moribund. I want a lilt and joy to art.

Ellsworth Kelly

ArtJoyWantGeometry

You know, essentially when you do a play you're reinterpreting a work of art that already exists. That's not what happens with a movie.

Sydney Pollack

WorkArtYouPlayKnowHappens

Language is a social art.

Willard Van Orman Quine

ArtLanguageSocial

I'm focused on creating art and whichever outlet it can get out in.

Rza

ArtCreatingFocusedOutGetOutlet

Two powerful women making art together is always really cool.

Lauren Jauregui

WomenArtTogetherCoolPowerful

For kind of sophisticated art I'm interested in, the larger structural rebuke has to be so subtle that it has to be distributed at an almost sub-atomic level. Otherwise, you fall into the kind of preachy, moralistic fable that I don't think makes for good literature.

Junot Diaz

GoodArtThinkLiteratureYouFall

If you want to do what you want to do, you cannot work. So art is going to be finished, and this is the will of the Islamic republic: to not have any artists or art and close the doors of all the cinemas and music and everything.

Golshifteh Farahani

WorkMusicArtDoorsYouWant

I remember when I was in art classes, I hated following the assignments. And I would get in trouble for doing something totally different or taking it in a weird direction.

Chang-Rae Lee

ArtDirectionWeirdDoingRemember

Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.

Seamus Heaney

HomeArtPoetryMostDomestic

Acting was a hobby for me when I started out, or maybe it was because there weren't a lot of examples of me when I found an interest in this art form.

Regina King

ArtMeHobbyActingOutStarted

It's always been performance art, but now it's on a different level.

Mark Roberts

ArtPerformanceNowAlwaysLevel

I'd love to work on art and music full time.

Hunx

WorkLoveMusicTimeArtFull

I enjoy looking, learning, smiling, and engaging with art, sometimes even rejecting it.

Elisabeth von Thurn und Taxis

LearningArtLookingEnjoySmiling

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