1,029 Quotes Regarding Art


People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.
David Hockney

I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.
Damien Hirst

I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.
David Hockney

How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?
Lou Reed

Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there?
David Hockney

If you don't get noticed, you don't have anything. You just have to be noticed, but the art is in getting noticed naturally, without screaming or without tricks.
Leo Burnett

It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.
David Byrne

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.
Noam Chomsky

I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.
Garry Kasparov

It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of culture for thousands of years before. These were very intelligent, subtle and sophisticated people, with organized societies and great art.
Henry Louis Gates

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
Marc Chagall

I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness and change, or at least some discussion.
Pink

Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.
Edgar Degas

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.
Yoko Ono

Oh yeah, I mean every fighter has got be dedicated, learn how to sacrifice, know what the devotion is all about, make sure you're paying attention and studying your art.
Marvin Hagler

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.
Henry Adams

The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing.
Doris Humphrey

Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
Charles de Lint

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
Casey Stengel

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
Susan Sontag