Art Quotes
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
Vladimir Nabokov
That piece has been choreographed so badly so many times. I'm loathe to do it but I may eventually because it is one of the seminal art works of the twentieth century.
Mark Morris
Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.
Frances Cornford
But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art.
Russell Banks
I'd like to introduce someone who has just come into my life. I've admired him for 35 years. He's someone who represents integrity, honesty, art, and on top of that stuff I'm actually sleeping with him.
Shirley MacLaine
If cooking becomes an art form rather than a means of providing a reasonable diet, then something is clearly wrong.
Tom Jaine
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Albert Einstein
I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.
Steve Martin
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
W. H. Auden
Most Glorious and eternal Majesty, Thou art righteous and holy in all thou dost to the sons of men, though thou hast suffered men to condemn Thy servant, Thy servant will not condemn Thee.
Christopher Love