Art Quotes

Once the subject matter of rock n' roll changed from cars and pop love songs to songs about really true love and the blues and death and mortality, this light bulb went off in my head and I went, 'Oh, that's what they're doing. That's kind of - that's art.'

David Chase
- True
- Death
- Light
An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.

J. D. Salinger
- Art
- Artist
- Perfection

When I started writing about art, there were no curators.

Waldemar Januszczak
- Writing
- Art
- Started
The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.

Pablo Casals
- Art
- Play
- Interpretation
It's a shame when other people's gambling habits change the meaning of paintings or when fluctuations of value start to dictate how people perceive art because it's too expensive to be interesting or moving. That's when I get bummed out.

Nate Lowman
The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.

Natalie Jeremijenko
- World
- Art
- Science
Art is just fraud. You just have to do something nobody else has done before.

Nam June Paik
- Done
- Art
What I've really liked doing is combining what you might call art criticism or music criticism with something that is happening in real life.

Geoff Dyer
- Life
- Music
- Real