Art Quotes
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Everyone uses art for different reasons: We use it as entertainment. We use it as an escape. We use it as comfort. Everyone uses it for different reasons.
Hayley Kiyoko
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At the Big Bad Lab, we build participatory art and media platforms for causes, communities and organizations we care about.
Cameron Russell
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I don't think you could write fiction or create art unless you are sort of a positive person.
David Means
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My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never really been particularly interesting to me.
Sam Palladio
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Real art must always involve some witchcraft.
Karen Blixen
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Art is going to make a bigger comeback than ever. That's the upside to things getting challenging.
Lady Gaga
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Headline writing is an art form.
Jennifer 8. Lee
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My work looks very cinematic because it's not abstract video art. It's sometimes very narrative and since I play with film grammar in my video work, making a feature film was almost the same challenge.
Nicolas Provost
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Some men turn every quality or art into a means of making money; this they conceive to be the end, and to the promotion of the end all things must contribute.
Aristotle
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I work as diligently on my canvases as the laborers do in their fields.
Vincent Van Gogh
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I have long been a fan and enthusiast where art is concerned.
Donatella Versace
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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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I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. It's the most radical thing.
Barry McGee
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I really have a lot of respect for music, the art form of music. It's my whole life. I don't care about any of that other stuff. And I have always felt that way. I'll build a career on my own merits, my own hard work and nothing else.
James Edward Olliges Jr.
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I always wanted to be a doctor and go to art school, but I thought I'd regret it if I didn't act.
Kate Ashfield
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Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex theater, supreme temple of the western eye. We live in the age of idols. The pagan past, never dead, flames again in our mystic hierarchies of stardom.
Camille Paglia
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Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class.
Drew Barrymore
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Art comes from a visceral need and is usually generated by something I have seen; writing comes from something that happens in my head and my heart.
E. L. Konigsburg
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To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art, if my position is correct.
Mark Twain
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Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
Barbara Kruger
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I always thought of words as art supplies.
Douglas Coupland
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I think the art fair is very much a form of urbanism. I think something really happens to the cities when such a fair happens. The city becomes an exhibition; it's amazing.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.
G. H. Hardy
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Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
Salvador Dali