I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is. Jean-Michel Basquiat on art
To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute. Vladimir Nabokov on art
Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot. William Shatner on art
Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things. Catherine Deneuve on art
Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth. Camille Paglia on art
Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer. Maynard James Keenan on art
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. Paul Valery on art
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. W. H. Auden on art
Trauma happens in relationships, so it can only be healed in relationships. Art can't provide healing. It can be cathartic and therapeutic but a relationship is a three-part journey. Alanis Morissette on art
Art is not a pastime but a priesthood. Jean Cocteau on art
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art it is the part the schools cannot recognize. James Joyce on art
As in nature, as in art, so in grace it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster. Thomas Guthrie on art
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe. Gustave Flaubert on art
Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom. Gustave Flaubert on art
You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it. Gustave Flaubert on art
There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things. Gustave Flaubert on art
The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest. Gustave Flaubert on art
The cult of art gives pride one never has too much of it. Gustave Flaubert on art
The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation. Auguste Rodin on art
With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day! Ella Wheeler Wilcox on art