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Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.
David Hockney on art

Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.
Norah Jones on art

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

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

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

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 on art

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 on art

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 on art

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

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

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 on art

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 on art

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 on art

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 on art

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

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

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 on art

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 on art

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 on art

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