Art Quotes
- Page 8Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.
Thomas Edward Brown
At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways.
Laurie Anderson
In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.
Johan Huizinga
Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been a very negative thing. I know that I have wanted very much to write books that are accessible to the widest audience possible.
Bell Hooks
The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.
Lynda Barry
With out art, without communicating, we wouldn't live beyond 30 because we'd be so sad and depressed.
Wayne Coyne
Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.
Ben Shneiderman
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.
W. H. Auden
Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
Barbara Kruger
Things that bring out your emotions are what should be in theaters and in books. That's what art is. It makes you feel things.
Dominique Swain
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness.
Eugenio Montale
Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.
Jeanette Winterson
The spirit of the Olympic movement is great for young people because it teaches them about the training and discipline required to compete. Even if they don't make the teams, they can rededicate their lives to the art of sport, discipline, and physical fitness.
Richard M. Daley
The first professional training I received of any kind was when I was 14 years old and we were in Kansas City, Missouri. I attended the Kansas City Art Institute for one summer.
Marc Davis
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
They say the average person can't make a living in art... but if you tell me there's something I can't do, that's what I have to do.
George Sutherland