You never know about the art world because it's a matter of opinion. If you look at old art like Rembrandt and Vermeer, it's not completely a matter of opinion. The pictures confront you, and you see exactly what it is. In modern art, a lot of it is suggestive, and it becomes a matter of opinion.
Peter Saul
ArtOpinionWorldYouLookPictures
If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
Vincent Van Gogh
ArtVoiceYouSayWillPaint
Art saved my life.
Richard Cabral
LifeArtMy LifeSaved
I want to make movies and pieces of television and pieces of art that crack everyone's assumptions.
Keegan-Michael Key
ArtAssumptionsTelevisionMovies
All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether you engage in the art process yourself or you're an audience member.
Jane Alexander
ArtYourselfProcessYouWantWay
Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot be considered art at all.
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
FreedomArtArchitectureLongBuild
Art is something you can't teach, but you can inspire it.
Billy Al Bengston
ArtInspireYouTeachSomething
What I am out to do is make sure that the Met continues to be the most exciting encyclopedic museum in the world. I want to sustain the vibrancy that makes it exciting to work here, that makes it exciting for visitors. The art remains central.
Thomas P. Campbell
WorkArtI AmWorldMuseumWant
Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people - more just, more moral, more sensitive, more understanding. Perhaps that is true - in certain rare, isolated cases.
Paul Auster
ArtAppreciationPeopleThinkBetter
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
Lin Yutang
LifeWisdomArtDoneLeavingNoble
It's dollars before art in Hollywood.
Hilton Als
ArtHollywoodDollarsBefore
I'm a massive fan of Brit Art in general and Damien Hirst in particular. I think he's an absolute genius and should be celebrated in every way.
David Morrissey
ArtThinkGeniusWayFanGeneral
I'm not trying to do conceptual art.
Peter Sotos
ArtTryingConceptual ArtConceptual
Art is made in hindsight.
Virgil Abloh
ArtHindsightMade
There are risks in the sheer brevity of Twitter, and it's actually quite an elegant art reducing what you have to say to 140 characters, and it's something that I quite enjoy attempting to do.
Richard Dawkins
ArtRisksEnjoyYouSayElegant
The erotic and the art historical imagination is something that gets very little play when people talk about my work, and when they rarely do, they try to problematize it.
Kehinde Wiley
WorkArtImaginationPeoplePlay
Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?
James Montgomery
NatureFlowerArtBlueHueWhence
Art raises its head where creeds relax.
Friedrich Nietzsche
ArtRelaxHeadWhereCreedsRaises
I'm not interested in pop art.
Billy Corgan
ArtNot InterestedPopInterested
I've always been interested in visual art and used to be much more into theater when I was younger, or more knowledgeable about what's going on. And literature has played a big part in my life.
Todd Haynes
LifeArtMy LifeLiteratureMore
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
Paul Cezanne
NatureArtHarmonyParallel
I've perfected the art of busting on people. That's how comedians show each other love.
Leslie Jones
LoveArtPeopleComediansShowHow
All great art allows us this: a glimpse across the limits of our self.
Hisham Matar
GreatArtLimitsSelfUsGreat Art
My own interest in art was because of my mother. My father didn't like contemporary art, so he didn't give her large sums to spend. So, she began buying prints and drawings. During my school days, I remember sitting in on many of the early meetings.
David Rockefeller
FatherMotherArtSchoolMeetings
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