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One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns, and that's what we love, and that's what we get off on.
Danica McKellar on art

A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind.
Clive Bell on art

It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.
Dave Barry on art

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.
Isadora Duncan on art

Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.
William Bernbach on art

I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'
Lady Gaga on art

Medicine is not only a science it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.
Paracelsus on art

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.
Mary Baker Eddy on art

So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die that is to say, civilization will die.
William Morris on art

Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings.
Jerry Saltz on art

I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art.
Jerry Saltz on art

Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts.
Jerry Saltz on art

The art gods cooked up something special for James Ensor.
Jerry Saltz on art

All art comes from other art, and all immigrants come from other places.
Jerry Saltz on art

When art wins, everyone wins.
Jerry Saltz on art

I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste.
Jerry Saltz on art

Art is changing. Again. Here. Now. Opportunities to witness this are rare, so attend and observe.
Jerry Saltz on art

Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.
Jerry Saltz on art

Recessions are hard on people, but they are not hard on art.
Jerry Saltz on art

I like that the art world isn't regulated.
Jerry Saltz on art