Art Quotes

• The art market was very different before the mid-1980s: then, art was all about passion, whereas now it's become a commodity.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Different
  • Passion
  • Now

• I think reading a room - reading the personalities, reading body language - is kind of a lost art.

  

  Bonnie Hammer
  • Art
  • Lost
  • Reading

• Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.

  

  Bill Griffith
  • Art
  • Vision
  • Romantic

• I went to a high school for the performing arts and I lived and breathed music. It kept me focused; it kept me sane.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Music
  • School
  • High

• The more horrible this world (as today, for instance), the more abstract our art, whereas a happy world brings forth an art of the here and now.

  

  Paul Klee
  • Art
  • Happy
  • Abstract

• I think a scientist's job is to explore the Universe, to explore the cosmos around us. People always want to know - why is that useful? Well, on just pure fundamental grounds, on some level it's like art, it's like umm, music, it's aesthetics, it's like philosophy. You want to know where you are in the Universe.

  

  Brian Schmidt
  • People
  • Music
  • Why

• Many great works of art, poetry, and music are inspired by astral memories. The desire to do noble, beautiful things here on Earth is also often a carryover of astral experiences between a person's earth lives.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Great
  • Music
  • Beautiful

• I discovered the 7th art at home when I was kid, through Charlie Chaplin's movies and those of my father who shot documentaries. He was my biggest influence. So I took his camera and started shooting.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Art
  • Home
  • Father

• Art does imitate life, it has to come from somewhere. To put boundaries and limitations on it doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

  

  Christian Slater
  • Life
  • Art

• I love the idea of modern art in a home that isn't totally modern. There's a certain energy that comes out of that juxtaposition.

  

  Darren Star
  • Art
  • Home
  • Energy

• The most important thing about Jazz at Lincoln Center is the fact that it's the first time that perhaps the most important art form in American culture has a place to really exhibit itself and dedicated to its own particular conditions of performance.

  

  Rafael Vinoly
  • Time
  • Important
  • American

• I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.

  

  Danny Boyle
  • People
  • Art
  • Culture

• 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

• Art is higher than reality and has no direct relation to reality. To approach the spiritual in art, one will make as little use as possible of reality, because reality is opposed to the spiritual. We find ourselves in the presence of an abstract art. Art should be above reality, otherwise it would have no value for man.

  

  Piet Mondrian
  • Reality
  • Value
  • Spiritual

• The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Work
  • Art
  • Perfect

• When I was 16 years old, I joined a drama group called North Queensland Academy of Dramatic Art under a woman called Maggie Shephard-King. She inspired me to audition for the role of Romeo in 'Romeo and Juliet.'

  

  Brenton Thwaites
  • She
  • Drama
  • King

• I don't make art with grandiose delusions. I do know there are limits to what art is capable of. That makes it all the more appealing to me. And I can do as I will whenever I choose.

  

  Raymond Pettibon Black Flag
  • Capable
  • Delusion
  • Grandiose

• Working on art, as opposed to being in a constant collaborative state, as in a band, is something that I've always done - to a smaller degree, but it always remained a part of my integral self.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • Done
  • Art
  • Band

• Contemporary art and manga - what is the same about them? Nothing, right? The manga industry has a lot of talented people, but contemporary art works on more of a solitary model. No one embarks on collaboration in contemporary art in order to make money. But in the manga world, everyone is invested in collaboration. The most important point is that the manga industry constantly encourages new creations and creators.

  

  Takashi Murakami
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Time
  • Different
  • Look

• For the Chinese, the Greeks, the Mayans, or the Egyptians, nature was a living totality, a creative being. For this reason, art, according to Aristotle, is imitation; the poet imitates the creative gesture of nature.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Nature
  • Creative
  • Chinese

• I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Time
  • Art
  • Value

• Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Nature
  • Science
  • Bodybuilding

• En art comme en amour, l'instinct suffit.

  

  Anatole France
  • Art

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