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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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