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What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It's not what you see that is art; art is the gap.
— Marcel Duchamp
I got a PBS mind in an MTV world.
— Jimmy Buffett
I don't really believe in 'directions' in art; the rope twists as you follow it, that's all.
— Graham Nelson
Lovemaking is the consolation for living in the body, just as art is the consolation for living in the world.
— Laura Argiri
Darkness is a lot of what art is and certainly in our community a lot of it is people sort of wrestling with their demons.
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
I grew up in a middle-class house without books, without art. No one around me wrote poetry or even read it.
— Edward Hirsch
Jesus said when you pray say "Our Father which art in heaven." He did not say "Our Judge which art in heaven". #grace #gospel
— John Paul Warren
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
In fact, every day I'll read a chapter of some art book. I don't know why. It's just a habit.
— Sylvester Stallone
Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.
— Jacques Barzun
Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.
— Martin Scorsese
A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it.
— Walter Darby Bannard
The art the wealthy use in business is to jump.
— Ehab Atalla
I think masturbating is a really important function in art. People don't like to hear that kind of stuff, but it's true.
— Patti Smith
In place of the dream, the future will put art on a scientific and technical basis.
— Theo Van Doesburg
The art of making love, muffled up in furs, in the open air, with the thermometer at Zero, is a Yankee invention.
— John Quincy Adams
Punch a black belt in the face, he becomes a brown belt. Punch him again, purple ...
— Carlson Gracie
Most art in the world does not have a capital 'A,' but is a way of turning everyday objects into personal expressions.
— Gloria Steinem
Mum and Dad always wanted me to do whatever I was happy doing. I nearly went to art college at 16, but decided to do a BTEC in performing arts.
— Stephen Graham
Abstract art has helped us to experience the emotional power inherent in pure form.
— Anton Ehrenzweig
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
When I began taking photographs I thought they might work better in magazines, in a journalistic sense, rather than as art.
— Gillian Wearing
Alas! in the exercise of the arts, industry scarce bears the name of merit.
— Elizabeth Inchbald
Art is contemplation of the world in a state of grace and imaginatively reflecting that subjective understanding.
— Hermann Hesse
To approach the spiritual in art, one will make as little use as possible of reality, because reality is opposed to the spiritual.
— Piet Mondrian
It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there.
— Anthony Trollope
I demanded a realm in which I should be both master and slave at the same time: The world of art is the only such realm.
— Henry Miller
I wore one of my Tanguy earrings and one made by Calder in order to show my impartiality between Surrealist and Abstract Art.
— Peggy Guggenheim
Everything in life goes back to the basics.
— Kron Gracie
The master swordsman isn't interested in killing people. He only wants to perfect his art.
— Helen DeWitt
Things that bring out your emotions are what should be in theaters and in books. That's what art is. It makes you feel things.
— Dominique Swain
Musicians talk of nothing but money and jobs. Give me businessmen every time. They really are interested in music and art
— Jean Sibelius
To go and see one druidical temple is only to see that it is nothing, for there is neither art nor power in it; and seeing one is quite enough.
— Samuel Johnson
Thou art in the end what thou art. Put on wigs with millions of curls, set thy foot upon ell-high rocks. Thou abidest everwhat thou art. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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
References to all works of art, tombs, tunnels, and architecture in Rome are entirely factual
— Dan Brown
Culture, then, only truly becomes culture when it is embodied in someone.
— Laszlo Krasznahorkai
Like most modern Americans, I assume individuality is not only a fundamental value, but a goal in life, an art form.
— Howard Rheingold
In the heart of appeasement there's the fear of rejection, and in acts of fear there are mirrors of oppression.
— Criss Jami
Art should be something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue.
— Henri Matisse
Cerebration is the enemy of originality in art.
— Martin Ritt
A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.
— Robert Smithson
I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.
— Gustave Courbet
The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.
— David Hilbert
Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man's art would also be wild or natural in a good sense.
— Henry David Thoreau
Truth and beauty can still win battles. We need more art, more passion, more wit in defense of the Earth.
— David R. Brower
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.
— Will Durant
Idea and experience will never coincide in the center; only through art and action are they united.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
When I met Steve Kaufman, I thought he was Gene Simmons, but what an artist talent he is. He will be an art force in the art world to deal with.
— Roy Lichtenstein
I am the soul in limbo.
— Andre Breton
There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities.
— Roger Zelazny
He had perfected the art of looking interested, and could grasp in surprise at any and every predictable punchline.
— Ian Rankin
In peace, continue your art; in war, continue your art; in freedom, continue your art; in captivity, continue your art!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
In the end, the discipline of verification is what separates journalism from entertainment, propaganda, fiction, or art.
— Bill Kovach
What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.
— Ralph Fiennes
I am an expert in the 'art of the possible.'
— Sarah Brightman
I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man's urge to open his heart
— Edvard Munch
In the domain of art there is no light without heat.
— Victor Hugo
The war brought out all the art in me.
— Horace Pippin
I have to confess I'm not a huge comics fan in the wider sense of comics as an art form.
— Grant Morrison
The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
— Ralph Richardson
What are you going to do if you find art, Pen? You going to steal some and put it in the van?""I'm going to remember. When there was art. — Francesca Lia Block
Thou art but a feeble flower in the garden of the universe, yet thou hath a purpose much greater than thyself.
— Raneem Kayyali
I'm not from the arts, I'm a law professor. But I think we need more poetry in politics.
— Zephyr Teachout
Doubt is only removed by action. If you're not working then that's where doubt comes in.
— Conor McGregor
If you don't think screenwriting is a work of art, good luck in your life without a soul.
— A.D. Posey
Here was a monument, in fieldstone, to the art of family life.
— Judith Thurman
In 1993, I retired from the Art Ensemble of Chicago to devote myself full time to Buddhist studies and to the practice of Aikido.
— Joseph Jarman
We live in a world where art exists in galleries and museums, and musicians have to play the same venues over and over.
— Doug Aitken
The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying to create a new philosophy.
— Douglas Sirk
True alchemy lies in this formula: 'Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse'.
— Arthur Rimbaud
