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For the hackneyed art of lying without injury to anyone, Rushbrook, to his shame, was proficient.
— Elizabeth Inchbald
Being able to tell one from start to finish, and making that puzzle come together at the end. That's the art for me.
— Kendrick Lamar
Lovemaking is the consolation for living in the body, just as art is the consolation for living in the world.
— Laura Argiri
Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.
— A.S. Byatt
I have a lot of ideas for art. And it is really - I don't really have time to do them all.
— Robert Barry
Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.
— Andre Maurois
One might say that where Religion becomes artificial, it is reserved for Art to save the spirit of religion.
— Richard Wagner
I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.
— Jeff Koons
Art is standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the world, and letting ourselves be a conduit for passing energy.
— Albert Einstein
With Michelangelo anatomical science is transformed into music. With him the human body is architectonic matter for the construction of dreams.
— Umberto Boccioni
Fifty grand for a paper bucket? Well it was all about context, you see.
— Paul Christensen
I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.
— Francis Bacon
Our Father who art in nature ... must have a great and overwhelming love for no-goods and blots-on-the-town and bums, and Mack and the boys.
— John Steinbeck
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
So many people say painting is fun. I don't find it fun at all. It's hard work for me.
— Edward Hopper
I've decided that art is a habit-forming drug. That's all it is, for the artist, for the collector, for anybody connected with it.
— Marcel Duchamp
This is not an easy time for humorists because the government is far funnier than we are.
— Art Buchwald
Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.
— Anton Seidl
Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
I would trade many an art-film classic for the final exchange between Redford and Streisand in front of the Plaza.
— Molly Haskell
Women have a genius for love; men can only learn the art indifferently.
— Joseph De Maistre
Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
— Adam Gopnik
I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.
— Maria Callas
I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts.
— Thomas F. Wilson
The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.
— Woody Allen
In many ways an artistic nature unfits a man for a practical existence.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity.
— Arthur Erickson
Art is hard for a puritan to understand.
— Gunter Grass
Unfortunately, the more chaotic the society, the greater is the desire for conservative, nonconfrontational art.
— Kate Braverman
Perhaps he was not a true writer after all. He had read somewhere that, for true writers, nothing was more important than their art, not even love.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The purpose of art is the fight for freedom,
— Ai Weiwei
Why is joy not considered a fit subject for an artist?
— Eugene Manlove Rhodes
When I'm home, I practice four or five hours a day ... I warm up for an hour before a gig.
— Art Farmer
Art is there for nourishment, not explication.
— Walter Darby Bannard
The male muse is an unaccountably rare thing in art. Where does that leave female artists looking for inspiration?
— Kate Christensen
Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake.
— W. Somerset Maugham
The Bible has been a bestseller for centuries. Why should I let two thousand years of publicity go to waste?
— Cecil B. DeMille
A gypsy girl approached Don Zana and Alfanhui and held out her tambourine. Don Zana said to her, 'You don't pay for art, kid.
— Rafael Sanchez Ferlosio
Politics is the art of promising heaven and delivering purgatory, and claiming hero status for saving your country from hell.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
— Ansel Adams
Duchamp is known for calling a thing art, rather than making it. A lot of that is picked up in pop art, too.
— Claes Oldenburg
Art is how a culture records its life, how it poses questions for the next generation and how it will be remembered.
— Marsha Norman
If it weren't for errant passion, death, despair, and loss, the great bulk of art would never have been born.
— Irvin D. Yalom
I unfortunately do suffer for my art.
— Ridley Scott
Be kind to dragonswans, for thou art gorgeous when naked and taste good with cool whip. (Channon)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.
— Barry Hannah
The art that we should be doing today, in the twenty-first century, is art that is not for the museum.
— Tania Bruguera
The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.
— Halle Berry
For me, art, and especially music, exist to elevate us as far as possible above everyday existence.
— Gabriel Faure
Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don't see a different purpose for it now.
— Dorothea Tanning
I already have a wife who is too much for me.. she is my art, and my works are my children.
— Michelangelo
The will to work must dominate, for art is long and time is brief.
— Charles Baudelaire
Keep your life as simple as possible. That leaves room for the impossible to become possible.
— Art Hochberg
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 Art alone is great:The bust survives the state,
The crown the potentate. — Theophile Gautier
Art for art's sake, money for God's sake.
— Simon Raven
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
I would like to do all kinds of things: photography and art and designing; I want to help do charity things for animals and things like that.
— Georgia May Jagger
Whatever happens to the art world, art will go on regardless. As for obscurity, it looms just over the horizon beckoning us all. Why worry.
— Michael Craig-Martin
The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art.
— Duane Michals
The arts are the hospitals for our souls ...
— Suzanne Farrell
When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss Art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss Money
— Oscar Wilde
Beauty and desire to possess have driven men mad for centuries.
— Hannah Rothschild
Limit your day to what you feel comfortable with doing - put the rest on the shelf - for further consideration down the line.
— Art Hochberg
Poetry is not only the most concise way of conveying the human experience; it also offers the highest possible standards for any linguistic operation.
— Joseph Brodsky
Art, when inspired with love, leads to higher realms. Love art and that art will open for you the inner life.
— Meher Baba
Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
For some death is an art, for others it is merely an inevitability.
— Sadie S. Forsythe
Trash has given us an appetite for art.
— Pauline Kael
Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
In art, there are tears that do lie too deep for thought.
— Louis Kronenberger