Art Quotes

No one has ever suggested that tax exemption has converted libraries, art galleries, or hospitals into arms of the state or employees 'on the public payroll.' There is no genuine nexus between tax exemption and establishment of religion.

Warren E. Burger
- Art
Every human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story.

Don Miguel Ruiz
- Art

The ability... to experiment with imaginary situations, gives man a freedom... the pleasure in trying out and exploring imaginary situations. A child's play is concerned with this pleasure; and so is much of art, and much of science... Pure science... is a form of play, in this sense.

Jacob Bronowski
- Trying
- Science
- Freedom
The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said.

Friedrich Durrenmatt
- Good
- Art
Art makes people do a double take and then, if they're looking at the picture, maybe they'll read the text under it that says, "Come to Union Square, For Anti-War Meeting Friday." I've been operating that way ever since - that art is a means to an end rather than simply an end in itself. In art school we're always taught that art is an end in itself - art for art's sake, expressing yourself, and that that's enough.

Eric Drooker
- Picture
- Union
- Expressing
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
- People
- Work
- Imagination
Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde
- Art
- Drawing
- Morality
We have created indoor installations inside museums, like the Wrapped Floor at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 1968, and not monumental at all by any standards.

Christo
- Art
- Chicago