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The good thing about being an artist, is it's a legitimate way of looking at things cross-eyed. — John Chamberlain

Art is about paying attention. — Laurie Anderson

About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal. — Christina Stead

The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick. — Sophie Swetchine

I wrote 'The Painted Word,' about modern art, and was denounced as reactionary. In fact, it is just a history, although a rather loaded one. — Tom Wolfe

An old art spreading rumours about / Paradise, it begs outside the gates / Of the gods: the active gods come out. — Peter Porter

The art market was very different before the mid-1980s: then, art was all about passion, whereas now it's become a commodity. — Adam Clayton

About one or two songs per record is me doing a little bloodletting. — Art Alexakis

Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities. — Charles De Gaulle

Literature is art and art is about passion. It's about drive. It's about beauty. How can you slide through a semester of that and not be moved by it? — Kristen Ashley

When you smell a flower, where is the smell before you smell the flower? Think about that one. — Art Hochberg

Gloria was still talking, something about how shooting people was in a sense safer than making art, in terms of avoiding serious lapses in taste. — Rachel Kushner

We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about. — Charlie Haden

Artists, as a rule, understand nothing about business, or, for some reason or other, they aren't allowed to understand anything about it. — Robert Walser

A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it. — Walter Darby Bannard

What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit. — Richard Attenborough

If you worry about how good the art is, you're never going to make your own art. — Eric Fischl

You know that I immerse myself in music, so to speak - that I think about it all day long - that I like experimenting - studying - reflecting. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Avoid methodology. If what you're doing is about technique, that's not art. — Kay WalkingStick

Art is about the messy and marvelous business of coming to your senses - and also, to the senses of the world. — Michael Leunig

Fifty grand for a paper bucket? Well it was all about context, you see. — Paul Christensen

The idea of peer critique, of talking about each other's art - I just found it so useless. — Win Butler

This was me before I knew about anything hard, when my whole life was packed lunches and art projects and spelling quizzes. — Nina LaCour

Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits talking about their wives. — Natasha Leggero

The most important thing about writing a book is having book parties. — Art Buchwald

I tend not to work with a specific person in mind. Art is a matter of statistics. It's not about individuals. It's about people. — Maurizio Cattelan

I'm fascinated by how Hollywood has changed since I started. Today it's about immediate delivery. There's less risk and less art. — Diane Lane

Why write [about my art]? Why not just show the photographs? — Constantin Brancusi

Wrestling is an art form. I don't worry about those who don't get it; I worry about satisfying those who do. — Paul Heyman

What one does in one's art, that is the breath of one's being. What one does in one's life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about. — D.H. Lawrence

To me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it. — Noah Taylor

What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images. — Peter Zumthor

What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most? — George Eliot

It's so much of what art and creativity are, being able to confront your own demons. If you can do that, you can get through just about everything. — Jeannette Walls

What really drives me mad about art is that, in America, the only thing you can do is to take it apart. — M.I.A.

Art imitates life, but science fiction informs us about what form it will take. — Alan Joshua

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way. — Eli Broad

You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back. — Ben Jonson

Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else
that's how you'll get ahead. — Austin Kleon

The damnable thing about bad art is that the insincerity which lies at its roots is not perceived by the artist himself. — Quentin Bell

Art is long, and the talk about it is even longer. — William John Locke

I was truly ignorant about art before the film. — Claire Forlani

I have my dark side like anybody, you know, depression, anxiety ... and I write about gritty, real-life stuff. — Art Alexakis

One of my goals as a professor of English is to teach students to recognize and think critically about what makes something art. — Andrew Hoberek

A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it. — Simone Weil

Nothing reveals more about the inner life of a people than their arts ... — Diane Ackerman

Art is not only about something; it is something. A work of art is a thing in the world, not just a text or commentary on the world. — Susan Sontag

Art is not about something, Art is something — Sarah Bernhardt

What about when you miss someone? Where does that come from? It comes from love. — Art Hochberg

In a way, art is a theory about the way the world looks to human beings. It's abundantly obvious that one doesn't know the world around us in detail — James Gleick

Pouring espresso is an art, one that requires the barista to care about the quality of the beverage. — Howard Schultz

The whole idea of ideas in art is useless. Only have ideas about form. — Matthew Collings

The nice thing about growing up in that kind of environment is you were exposed to so much
music, plays, art exhibits, rock concerts. — Perrey Reeves

I don't know about art but I know what I like — Lux Interior

Great acting is as much about the choices a performer makes as it is about their ability. — Stewart Stafford

If you look at art history, at Goya or Gainsborough, it's always about acknowledging the people of your time who have influence. — Sam Taylor-Johnson

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity. — Damien Hirst

Without a doubt,
I must read,
all the books
I've read about.
See the artworks
hung on hooks,
that I have only,
seen in books. — Lang Leav

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

Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse, — Marcus Aurelius

What is great about art and artists is that we get to ask the questions, even though we may never know the answers. — Dennis Quaid

Art is kind of the lens through which I think about God. — Dan Colen

I think all writing about art is in some way dancing to architecture. It's all about similitude, being analogous, metaphorical, adjectival, etc. — Rob Chapman

What the art world has done, it has been constantly been pushing the boundaries about what art can be. It's like expanding its territory. — Tom Rachman

Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen. — Andrew Wyeth

I'm more concerned about helping humanity through my art — Sahndra Fon Dufe

I got exposed to art-house cinema and foreign films. I was from L.A., so it was a film culture that I didn't know about. — Lisa Cholodenko

When I was 10, I knew there was something different about me. Everyone was football-mad, but I just wanted to watch musicals and see art. — Bruno Tonioli

Magic and art tend to share a lot of the same language. They both talk about evocation, invocation, and conjuring. — Alan Moore

Martial arts is not about picking your fights and picking how things go; it's about adapting to the how things are. — Gunnar Nelson

I feel like really thinking about art and really appreciating it and learning the language of it just makes you more of a connoisseur. I believe that. — David Rees

The philosophers write about things as they are and as they appear to be, but as an artist I find that appearance is everything. — Gary Inbinder

WPC Buchan might not know much about art, but she knew what gave her the fucking willies, and these things took the hairy biscuit. — Stuart MacBride

I think that, like any art, fashion is about expression. It allows you to express yourself and your identity through what you choose to wear. — Erin Heatherton

There is a huge thirst for knowledge among the younger generation for contemporary art, but most of them learn about it by going on the Internet. — Dasha Zhukova

Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things. — Nicholas Meyer

Yet the special thing about literature, the major art form of a Western civilization now ending before our very eyes, is not hard to define. — Michel Houellebecq

The most useful thing about art is it's uselessness. — Tom Robbins

The funny thing about prayers is you can absolutely make up your own if you want to. — Art Hochberg

There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph, or a painting. — Sara Sheridan

Ephemeral work made outside, for and about a day, lies at the core of my art and its making must be kept private. — Andy Goldsworthy

For a while in the twenties and thirties, art was talked about as a substitute for religion; now B movies are a substitute for religion. — Pauline Kael

Effective content marketing is about mastering the art of storytelling. Facts tell, but stories sell. — Bryan Eisenberg

Education isn't just about feeding the brain. Art and music feed the heart and soul. — Julie Garwood

Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character. — Walter Darby Bannard

Organized perception is what art is all about. — Roy Lichtenstein

What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive. — Tahar Rahim

When it comes to art and science, people don't like a lot of either. Instead of being open to it, they're closed off about it. — Tim Burton

The art of the hero wasn't about being brave; it was about being so competent that bravery wasn't an issue. You — Christopher McDougall

No one knows who anyone else really is. We're just getting the outside version. It's all about love, anyway. — Art Hochberg

I see a movie as a way of learning about the world, about myself, and learning about my relationship with people and art. — Ang Lee

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary. — Boris Pasternak

Art is always about overcoming obstacles between the inner condition and the skill for expression. — Ai Weiwei

Dance is about movement and can be an art, but it's also about communication - with yourself, as much as with other people. — Jan Murray

If I could talk about it, I would not have to do it. I make art. — Neil Gaiman

Very private people have mastered the art of telling you little about themselves but doing it in such a way you think you know a lot. — Anonymous

The more I see and know about life, the more ideas I have and the more I want to make art. — Kirsten Dunst

The industry needs to be run by artists, because we are the only people that care about art. — Nikki Sixx

Let's be happy and forget all about art and politics! — Marty Rubin

Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite. — Karl Lagerfeld