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For the hackneyed art of lying without injury to anyone, Rushbrook, to his shame, was proficient.
— Elizabeth Inchbald
Whistler,' Manet called. 'How's your mother?
— Christopher Moore
When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.
— Sol LeWitt
I look up at the painting. It's not even that interesting. Definitely doesn't grab me and shake my brain around like the meadow scene did.
— Stefan Bachmann
If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist.
— John Dewey
Art sometimes imitates life. When it does, science fiction presages what form that life may take.
— Alan Joshua
And this is the origin of pop music: it's a professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music as well.
— Pete Seeger
Sometimes I'm asked by kids why I condemn marijuana when I haven't tried it. The greatest obstetricians in the world have never been pregnant.
— Art Linkletter
Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests
— Karl Lagerfeld
Art itself is underserved when we don't realize the power of it.
— Saul Williams
Fools with bookish knowledge art children with edged weapons; they hurt themselves, and put others in pain.
— Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann
The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
— Toni Morrison
Most art in the world does not have a capital 'A,' but is a way of turning everyday objects into personal expressions.
— Gloria Steinem
Success financially is a measure of creative success, it is the same in all arts.
— Stella McCartney
Art makes better humans, art is necessary in understanding the world and art makes people happy. Undeniably, art is not optional.
— Nathan Sawaya
I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you.
— Frank Stella
True Artistic Freedom is in Having No Desire Of Rewards
— Dean Cavanagh
Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.
— Robertson Davies
Our eyes are full of terrible confessions.
— Anne Sexton
The war brought out all the art in me.
— Horace Pippin
One thing is certain, anyone who collects art is not an artist.
— Heinrich Boll
Art has to keep moving and discovering to stay alive.
— Bill Watterson
Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
As an artist, I've always wanted to participate in the dialogue of art with other artists.
— Jeff Koons
To be silent is sometimes an art, yet not so great a one as certain people would have us believe, who are wisest they are most silent.
— Christoph Martin Wieland
I have to confess I'm not a huge comics fan in the wider sense of comics as an art form.
— Grant Morrison
Seducing a girl is no art, but it needs a stroke of good fortune to find one worth seducing.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Sometimes taking a leap faith requires an imaginative mind that can create the ending you are unable to see.
— Shannon L. Alder
But what is art other than revealing human nature?
— Marina Abramovic
It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.
— Damien Hirst
Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. We're so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
To me, photography is not just a visual art, but something closer to poetry - or at least to some poetry, such as the haiku.
— Frank Horvat
Humans make art to remember and be remembered," said Caius. "Art is their weapon against forgetting.
— Melissa Grey
Knowing how to help people is an art and the person who knows how to do it can always know that he will have the lasting affection of many.
— Norman Vincent Peale
A woman must be nursed into subsistence by love, where a man can become stronger by being hated. - from 'Cows in Art Class
— Charles Bukowski
In art as in life, form and subject, body and soul, are one.
— Edward Abbey
The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.
— Jackson Pollock
Think not-thinking. How do you think not-thinking? Nonthinking. This is the essential art of zazen.
— Ruth Ozeki
They're not poodles, they're art.
— Rachael Leigh
Most art is just surface noise.
— Walter Darby Bannard
The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.
— Henry James Sumner Maine
Christian art today should be twentieth-century art.
— Francis A. Schaeffer
Have you forgotten that love, like medicine, is simply the art of aiding nature?
— Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos
There's only one way to assure consistently good work. That is consistently thorough preparation.
— Andrew Loomis
Art is a guarantee of sanity.
— Louise Bourgeois
All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.
— Leslie Fiedler
I like working solo and it was a lot of fun joking around with the audience, saying things. I'm only just learning how to do certain things.
— Art Garfunkel
The object of art is to give life shape.
— Jean Anouilh
Poetry is a storm asking peace to dance with her.
— Jenim Dibie
Critics have a job to do. I understand that. It's not just to criticize. They're trying to interpret art for the public.
— Paul Emsley
When we accept bad art because it's good politics, we're killing the swan to feed the chickens.
— Tom Robbins
What art thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die?
— Christopher Marlowe
Originality is the most deadly mirage in all of art. You can chase it from now until doomsday, and you'll only find yourself lost and dying of thirst.
— Caitlin R. Kiernan
Time is not a great artist but weakens all he touches.
— William Hogarth
The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art.
— Duane Michals
I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art.
— Arsene Wenger
Reality is an aspect of property. It must be seized. And investigative journalism is the noble art of seizing reality back from the powerful.
— Julian Assange
I dream of you in colors that don't exist.
— Leah Raeder
It's easy to listen to what you are taught. But it's difficult to find what you have within yourself and master it as yor own.
— Gogen Yamaguchi
O Judgment ! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason !
— William Shakespeare
For Art alone is great:The bust survives the state,
The crown the potentate. — Theophile Gautier
Art matters because it is the one true great connector in a world that seems to be very unconnected.
— Josh Groban
The Earth Is My Stage And The Sun Is My Spotlight
— Joshua Teya
Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual end.
— Charles Baudelaire
The more perfect the approximation to truth, the more perfect is art.
— Maria Montessori
Art for art's sake, money for God's sake.
— Simon Raven
And what is death, if not a face at peace - its artistic perfection.
— Vladimir Nabokov
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
Art is born of humiliation.
— W. H. Auden
The process of art evolving is always one which has fascinated me.
— Norman McLaren
Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
— Saint Augustine
To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art.
— David Mamet
The moral pleasure in art, as well as the moral service that art performs, consists in the intelligent gratification of consciousness.
— Susan Sontag
I wound up studying art and design, got a job at Lonely Planet Publications as a designer, cartographer and illustrator.
— Trudi Canavan
Art may varnish and gild, but it can do no more.
— Henry David Thoreau