Art Quotes
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I have cut four albums so far, and all of them have been trendsetters and commercially successful. I believe that once you start taking art in commercial terms, it ceases to be art.
Kailash Kher
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I was always trying - I never wanted to let my fans down; I always wanted them to see me in my art form.
Lady Gaga
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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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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
Walt Whitman
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Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fears, dreams, and memories. So much of our lives are internal. The art of fiction has claimed - more than anything else - this internal ground as its own.
Varley O'Connor
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Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
Samuel Johnson
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
Edmund Burke
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And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship.
John Grierson
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Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.
Victor Pinchuk
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wir vermeinen, daß Härte, Gewaltsamkeit, Sklaverie, Gefahr auf der Gasse und im Herzen, Verborgenheit, Stoicismus, Versucherkunst und Teufelei jeder Art, daß alles Böse, Furchtbare, Tyrannische, Raubthier- und Schlangenhafte am Menschen so gut zur Erhöhung der Species »Mensch« dient, als sein Gegensatz...
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I think most people have creative ideas and have very strange, unorthodox impulses of things that they can do with their lives. I've had many of these over the years, but I decided the more important question was, 'When did I start calling this art?'
Vik Muniz