Art Quotes

I never really thought of myself as a musician. I'm not saying Sonic Youth was a conceptual-art project for me, but in a way, it was an extension of Warhol. Instead of making criticism about popular culture, as a lot of artists do, I worked within it to do something.

Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
Always, European art cinema has been the most threatening and the grimmest and the most transgressive, I think.

John Waters
- Art

I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.

Barbara Hepworth
- Art
- Feel
- Body
I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.

G. H. Hardy
- Art
- Creative
- Mathematics
Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
- Art
The new plastic idea thus correctly represents actual aesthetic relationships. To the modern artist, it is a natural consequence of all the plastic ideas of the past. This is particularly true of painting, which is the art least bound to contingencies. The picture can be a pure reflection of life in its deepest essence.

Piet Mondrian
- Life
- True
- Past
I own a home in Kyoto, Japan actually on the temple on grounds in Nanzenji that is going to become a Japanese art museum.

Larry Ellison
- Home
- Japanese
- Museum
Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.

Hampton Sides
- Business
- Career
- Friend