I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that. Erykah Badu
Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for upsized art and more of it. I've heard of photographers asked to print larger to increase the wall power and salability of their work. Everything winds up set to maximum in order to feed the beast. Jerry Saltz
To engage with art, we have to be willing to be wrong, venture outside our psychic comfort zones, suspend disbelief, and remember that art explores and alters consciousness simultaneously. Jerry Saltz
Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools - only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in art. Jerry Saltz
I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd. David Herbert Lawrence
Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff. David Herbert Lawrence
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind. David Herbert Lawrence
I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting. Paul Cezanne
You say a new era in art is preparing you sensed it coming continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest. Paul Cezanne
I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain. Paul Cezanne
Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly? Paul Cezanne
A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else. Charles Baudelaire
Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate good is always the product of an art. Charles Baudelaire
I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon. Sydney Pollack
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. Cesare Pavese
Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included... something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. It's a Gigantic project. Joseph Beuys
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience. Rebecca West
History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird. Joseph Conrad
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
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