Art Quotes

I think it's the strength of her music, using art to make a statement. I think it really is. It was not a cheap gift. The gift was an expensive gift for Nina [Simone]. Diamonds are expensive. Her music was expensive. She paid for it, but I think it's her greatest gift.

Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
- Thinking
- Diamond
- Nina
I always say film is art, theater is life and television is furniture.

Kenny Leon
- Life
- Art

As a younger man, I thought the best thing art could do was to challenge people's mindsets, and I still do, but I've come round to the value of entertainment. A show like 'The Interceptor,' which gives the audience that release, after a hard day, of just sitting down and enjoying themselves - that adds value to lives, too.

O. T. Fagbenle
- People
- Value
- Challenge
The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.

William Hazlitt
- Art
One often forgets that even if art is a very successful field in contemporary culture, there are still a lot of people alienated by it. Even if people don't fully understand where my work is coming from, at least there's somebody who looks kind of sane standing in front of you and politely engaging with you. People react.

Tino Sehgal
- People
- Culture
- Kind
And then before going back for my sophomore year, I decided to change my major to arts and sciences, and my dad cut a deal with me: He said if I'd quit school he'd pay my rent for the next three years, as if I were in school.

Sarah Silverman
- School
- Dad
- Cutting
Great food, like all art, enhances and reflects a community’s vitality, growth and solidarity. Yet history bears witness that great cuisines spring only from healthy local agriculture.

Rick Bayless
- Community
- Growth
- Spring
Sometimes my art is just an illusion - or is it?

Criss Angel
- Art