For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before. Vidal Sassoon on art
I choose films for their artistic value. I don't need a mansion or a Jaguar. When I leave this Earth, I won't take any money with me. All I will leave behind will be my art. Brad Renfro on art
Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast. Robert Morgan on art
Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life. Joseph Conrad on art
The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new. Robert Morgan on art
Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line. Joseph Conrad on art
Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk. Billy Idol on art
Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art. Miguel de Cervantes on art
Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized. James Wolcott on art
Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down. Malcolm De Chazal on art
There was a big drive when I was at art school to make you aware of the economy of meaning - after all, this was still during the tail end of minimalism. Being responsible for everything you put in your picture, and being able to defend it. Keeping everything clear around you so you know what is operating. To open the wound and keep it clean. Jane Campion on art
I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters. Sylvester Stallone on art
I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues,' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it, and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it. Jane Campion on art
The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation. Louise Brooks on art
Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide. Ben Okri on art
Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis. Karl Kraus on art
My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way. Robert Carlyle on art
In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event. Theodore Bikel on art