Art Quotes
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Distributing the music is so easy it's moot. So now the delicate art of calling attention to your music means everything. Marketing is distribution.
Derek Sivers
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It's hard to get hot over a painting; there's no equivalent for teenage obsessiveness. Art obsession is ideology. Ideology can be made sexy, but it's easier in music.
Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
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How can art be realized?
Alexander Calder
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The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.
Rumi
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Art and money are closely related. Try sitting down with a group of artists and ask them what's on their mind. Very quickly the topic shifts to money. And it can be very hard to get them off that subject.
Dave Winer
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Despite the persistent image of the architect as a heroic loner erecting monumental edifices through sheer force of will, the building art has always been a highly cooperative enterprise.
Martin Filler
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The lines of Pearl Art Glass are clean, certainly not cluttered.
James Lafferty
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I'm more attracted to art that smashes than I am attracted to art that sits on a shelf and is beautiful.
George C. Wolfe
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Art leads to a more profound concept of life, because art itself is a profound expression of feeling. The artist is born, and art is the expression of his overflowing soul. Because his soul is rich, he cares comparatively little about the superficial necessities of the material world; he sublimates the pressure of material affairs in an artistic experience.
Hans Hofmann
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In learning the art of storytelling by animation, I have discovered that language has an anatomy.
Walt Disney
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Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious.
Charles Munch
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If I want to do something in the TV industry, I should be allowed to explore that, but not in a way where it has to cancel out or ruin my visual art career.
Kalup Linzy
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Believe it or not, there were very few books on art, years ago.
James Rosenquist
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Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener.
Billy Joel
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You see, for me art's not one of life's ornaments, rococo relaxation to be greeted affably after a day of hard work; I'm inverted on this : for me it's my very breath, the one thing necessary, and all else is excretion and a latrine.
Arno
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A living museum must surely see itself as a locus of argument. A breathing art institution is not a lockup but a moveable feast.
Andrew O'Hagan
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Nichts halb zu thun ist edler Geister Art.
Christoph Martin Wieland
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Science is the special province of the ego. And magic and art are the special province of something else. I could name it, but I won't. It prefers to be unnamed
Terence McKenna
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It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned.
James Lafferty
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In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.
Georg Cantor
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Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.. .The inner life of a human being is a vast and varied realm.
Edward Hopper
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A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death.
Leonard Baskin
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Shapewear is the canvas and the clothes are the art.
Sara Blakely