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Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary. — Evan Esar

Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school. — Caio Fonseca

The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does what he does for one reason and one reason only-he can't help doing it. — Alma Gluck

Music is the expression of the will of nature while all other arts are expressions of the idea of nature. — Rudolf Steiner

I think the idea of art kills creativity. — Douglas Adams

The main thing in making art often is letting go of your expectation and your idea. — Agnes Martin

The idea is more important than the object. — Damien Hirst

Art is as heavy as sorrow, as light as a breeze, as bright as an idea, as pretty as a picture, as funny as money, and as fugitive as fraud! — Barbara Kruger

It's a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator's experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist's — Samuel R. Delany

I have always disliked the idea of an arts ghetto in which poetry is kept on a life-support system. — Tony Harrison

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

I'm quite obsessed with the idea of nailing the girl friendship. It's such an art, so delicate. — Alanis Morissette

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

I hate the idea of street art. With music, I just needed my brain and my voice, which didn't cost anything. — M.I.A.

It's true that there are people who live the idea of being an artist, as opposed to the idea of making art. — Daniel Alarcon

The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea. — Andre Gide

The willingness to be a champion for stupid ideas is the key to greater creativity, innovation, fulfillment, inspiration, motivation and success. — Richie Norton

I have a really analytical approach to art. And the whole idea that you can't analyze what makes a joke funny ... I do not agree with that at all. — David Rees

Art knows neither doctrine nor idea; its nature is to show. — Guy Davenport

I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer. — Mike Mills

This idea of art for art's sake is a hoax. — Pablo Picasso

I like the idea of multidisciplinary conversations, so in that spirit, I try and make a contribution from the art world into the music world. — Fred Tomaselli

I wanted to study film at an art school - I loved the idea of being surrounded by designers and artists. We were encouraged to be experimental. — Asif Kapadia

Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image. — Oscar Wilde

Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea. — David Blaine

I have no idea where I'm going but here's the real question: What am I doing here in the first place? — Art Buchwald

Let us note that art - even on an abstract level - has never been confined to 'idea'; art has always been the 'realized' expression of equilibrium. — Piet Mondrian

Great American art needs the idea of uninterrupted spaces, like a loft, which itself is something very American. — Renzo Piano

As an artist, it's been clear that the price of art has nothing to do with you, it has to do with an idea of what the market will tolerate. — Liam Gillick

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. And few ideas are worse than the ones we have about art. — Julia Cameron

Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus. — Sol LeWitt

From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art. — Michel Foucault

The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal? — Maynard James Keenan

I absolutely love this. Top notch art and scripting encapsulating a brilliant idea. — Leinil Francis Yu

If you want to be a radical theologian, you have to be able to say, "I have no idea what is going on." That's being a radical theologian. — Art Hochberg

The idea becomes a machine that makes art. — Sol LeWitt

I was meticulously copying other art and then I realized I could just use a camera and put my time into an idea instead. — Cindy Sherman

The idea of content in art is today merely a hindrance, a nuisance, a subtle or not so subtle philistinism. — Susan Sontag

People have had the idea to do a '90s alternative tour for a long time. I didn't come up with that; I was the first guy to basically say it was time. — Art Alexakis

Give any idea time to sink in. If it sinks let it go. If it rises to the surface, go with it. — Art Hochberg

I've always thought of the book as a visual art form, and it should represent a single artistic idea, which it does if you write your own material. — Chris Van Allsburg

The great masterpiece of Dada was the idea of having fun. — Marty Rubin

It just feels like meeting him again was like seeing a blank paper ready to be sketched, a different idea to be drawn. — Basma Salem

We all draw a little and compose a little, and none of us have any idea of time or money. — Charles Dickens

Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion. — Yayoi Kusama

I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture. — Henri Matisse

The way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas. — Linus Pauling

Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one's self to an idea. — Henry James

A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment. — Joyce Cary

I love the idea of modern art in a home that isn't totally modern. There's a certain energy that comes out of that juxtaposition. — Darren Star

To me, nothing in the art world is neutral. The idea of 'disinterest' strikes me as boring, dishonest, dubious, and uninteresting. — Jerry Saltz

The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions. — Vincent Cassel

The painting is finished when the idea has disappeared. — Georges Braque

In art one idea is as good as another. — Willem De Kooning

How does it work? I have no idea. It may have something to do with trusting the process of your life totally. — Art Hochberg

I realized that the "thing" and the "concept" were substituted for feeling and understood the falsity of the world of will and idea — Kazimir Malevich

Every piece of technology, every piece of art, basically everything manmade comes from an idea. — Pharrell Williams

still carry around with me a battle between working conceptually - art based on some overriding idea - and my pure carnal sensory love of materials. — Kim Gordon

Sometimes, to pursue a new idea, the artist must forfeit his deposit on an old idea. — Robert Breault

An essay is a work of literary art which has a minimum of one anecdote and one universal idea. — Carol Bly

Just tell yourself you're good. That'll take care of any idea that you have about not being good enough. — Art Hochberg

I had an idea for a technologically advanced luxury watch. I got involved in digital art and neon painting and put on shows of my work. — Giorgio Moroder

My opinion of art is that a man should have love for it, because my idea is that he paints from his heart and mind. — Horace Pippin

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. — John Ciardi

I grew up in the heat of '70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was the theory or meta in art. — Noah Baumbach

It would be a really bad idea to let this person loose."

"How bad of an idea?"

"Kicking-Hitler-out-of-art-school bad. — Rin Chupeco

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

Would it be anything like a literary disaster if Gore Vidal were to fall silent? Easy. No. In fact, there is something to be said for the idea. — Lance Morrow

The idea of the person enters poetics where art and reality, or intentionality and circumstance, meet. — Lyn Hejinian

I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art. — David Foster Wallace

In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work — Sol LeWitt

I'm a bit of a lefty. I like the idea of art and music collectives. — Jill Sobule

You can make clothing as art, but I like the idea of my clothes actually being worn and being useful to women. — Tracy Reese

Idea and experience will never coincide in the center; only through art and action are they united. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art. — Sol LeWitt

An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them. — Andy Warhol

An idea is salvation by imagination — Frank Lloyd Wright

The work of art will bring to light a new order inherent in things, and this will be: the idea of unity. — Ferdinand Hodler

Free enterprise is not a bad idea and has produced art. — Ishmael Reed

I like to convey the idea that art is important in everyday life. — Georgia O'Keeffe

I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove. — Wayne Thiebaud

The beauty of a great idea lies in the art of using it. — Thomas A. Edison

If you do not start with the idea, you are creating fine art - its personal, but it tends not to communicate. — Seymour Chwast

Forms in art arise from the impact of idea upon material ... so that thinking and belief and attitudes may endure as actual things. — Ben Shahn

To discuss the idea of silence in art is to discuss the various alternatives within this essentially unalterable situation. 4 — Susan Sontag

The ability of mixing sweetness with sarcasm, to the point that the other person has no idea if I'm being rude or not. It's an art really - charlie — Megan Whitmer

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another. — Brian Eno

Conceptual art is only good if the idea is good. — Sol LeWitt

The basic unit for contemporary art is not the idea, but the analysis of and extension of sensations. — Susan Sontag

My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require. — Edward Elgar

Concerts are never real music, you have to give up the idea of hearing in them all the most beautiful things of art. — Frederic Chopin

No idea stays pure. Even the flowering of art isn't pure. And the sun has spots. — Gunter Grass

Forests were the first temples of God and in forests men grasped their first idea of architecture. — James C. Snyder

The idea is to get your life to where it is doable, manageable, and somewhat in order. — Art Hochberg

The idea of "making art for art's sake" makes no sense for me. Each area of my life, all the roles I play, influences the others. — Ben Sollee

Art requires that you make something else exist that is a representation of what your feeling is, or your idea. — Anna Deavere Smith

In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is. — Douglas Sirk

I hate this idea in the Cinematheque that you must watch silent movies with no music, like it's a piece of art. It's not true. — Arnaud Desplechin

History has taught us that the idea of superpower is for a political maniac to design the art of control over other countries. — Nilantha Ilangamuwa