The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it. Gertrude Stein
I love prints of skulls and bones and have some taxidermy - a crow and a rabbit - to remind me of home. I like art and have a big portrait of Bjork. Ellie Goulding
The art of pleasing is the art of deception. Luc de Clapiers
Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art. Arsene Wenger
Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected. Charles Baudelaire
Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable. Charles Baudelaire
Art is not living. It is the use of living. Audre Lorde
The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. Martha Graham
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated. Auguste Rodin
The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions. Paul Klee
I like science and I love gym. Oh, and I like art, but I'm really bad at it. I'm just a terrible drawer. I can't draw a circle. Even with a ruler, I can't draw a straight line. Daniel Radcliffe
Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. Oliver Herford
I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself. Stephen Fry
Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language. Marshall McLuhan
All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science. Leslie Fiedler
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
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