Art Quotes
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
Jackson Pollock
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
Edgar Degas
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Film is really the one art form that can effectively use silence. Music and theater can play with silence, but they can't sustain silence without losing energy, whereas film can go into a silent mode and stay there for minutes at a time.
Walter Murch
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Sincerity and the correct use of the voice are the greatest things in the art of acting.
Alla Nazimova
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It's kind of funny, with all of the different outlets that come from acting that you could try, I would love to direct and kind of be involved in art direction, too.
Imogen Poots
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For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.
C. J. Cherryh
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I do not think the coerced mind ever really learns an art.
Poul Anderson
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If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is like that - agent and patient at once.
Aristotle
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I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.
Lady Gaga
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My career? I never think of it as a 'career.' Art and music and all those things that I'm creating are just part of me.
Yoko Ono
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In our generation, everybody told us that it's really important and it's nice to be able to speak a lot of languages. It's an art, too. It really impresses me, people who speak, like, seven languages. I admire them so much, so I began with English, and then Spanish and maybe Portuguese.
Adele Exarchopoulos
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I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
Ad Reinhardt
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The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.
Enid Bagnold
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My wife was the first art collector in the family, and I didn't become interested until around 1973. The first important artwork we bought was a Van Gogh drawing of two peasant houses in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer.
Eli Broad
