Steve Jobs Quotes
Great art stretches the taste, it doesn't follow tastes.
Steve Jobs
Quotes to Explore
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Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.
Salman Rushdie
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To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.
Larry Wall
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It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
Isaac D'Israeli
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To keep art stimulating, it's important to open it up to new horizons, which includes showing it in unexpected contexts.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.
Camille Paglia
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As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.
Ha-Joon Chang
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The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertainment. To achieve depth and universality, the playwright must subject himself to intense critique, to know human character and behavior, and finally to construct art from the most mundane of human experience.
F. Sionil Jose
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I am guilty of using dollar signs as proof of a work of art's longevity.
Barbara Goldsmith
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Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.
Karen Salmansohn
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Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.
Victor Pinchuk
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I don't know a single collector or museum director who says: 'Oh, he's on a list, so I think I'll buy something of his.' The people who buy my art put a little more thought into it than that.
Olafur Eliasson
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I knew I was different. I thought that I might be gay or something because I couldn't identify with any of the guys at all. None of them liked art or music, they just wanted to fight and get laid. It was many years ago but it gave me this real hatred for the average American macho male.
Kurt Cobain
Nirvana
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I like movies, because it's kind of a combination of every art, it's like it's picture, it's story, it's music, it's kind of like a clash and a collide of every art. It's really neat.
Jonathan Jackson
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I would never be fearful of any character.
Idris Elba
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Before games are played in common, no rules in the proper sense can come into existence. Regularities and ritualized schemas are already there, but these rites, being the work of the individual, cannot call forth that submission to something superior to the self which characterizes the appearance of any rule.
Jean Piaget
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Success can be destructive to the creative process. I say it all the time: success is as dangerous as total failure.
Marilyn Minter
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It's always been important to us to be original, which sounds really easy when you say it. Everyone says it all the time, but it's actually not that easy to be original. It's also something scary because if you're doing stuff that doesn't sound like anything else, I think a lot of people get scared of that. A lot of people tend to follow instead, they wait for something else to do something new and then they follow that. We just don't like to do that.
Christian Karlsson
Bloodshy & Avant
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Great art stretches the taste, it doesn't follow tastes.
Steve Jobs
