The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person and in the end they unite. Havelock Ellis on art
My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from college. As parents, they focused on education, but did not stop at academics - they made sure that we knew music, saw art and theatre and traveled - even though it meant budgeting like crazy. Jennifer Garner on art
A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor. Helen Rowland on art
Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz. Martin Scorsese on art
I don't think there is such a thing as being too raunchy when it comes to the art form of burlesque. Christina Aguilera on art
I don't think art is propaganda it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it. Keith Haring on art
Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority. Henri Frederic Amiel on art
History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed art has remembered the people, because they created. William Morris on art
I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form. Shia LaBeouf on art
Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn. Norman McLaren on art
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up. Jean Cocteau on art
At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art. Brian Eno on art
The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another. Brian Eno on art
The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know. Arthur Koestler on art
One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right. Brian Eno on art
Art is Art. Everything else is everything else. Ad Reinhardt on art
All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music. Walter Pater on art
I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more. Tori Amos on art
I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art. Ernst Fischer on art