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Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The world's most effeminate heterosexual, Daniel Johns
— Art Alexakis
I believe that every innovative thought comes from a creative mindset ... A creative mindset is what drives our world, and art is the base of that.
— Omar Epps
No one can discover you until you do. Exploit your talents, skills and strengths and make the world sit up and take notice.
— Rob Liano
Art is not merely a decorative enhancement of our lives, but a sign of our desire to live in the world fully and honestly.
— Jan Zwicky
The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring.
— Edward Hopper
In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was nearly a coherent thing-for a minute.
— Howard Hodgkin
Lovemaking is the consolation for living in the body, just as art is the consolation for living in the world.
— Laura Argiri
One cannot escape from the world with greater certainty than through art, and one cannot relate to it with greater certainty than through art.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Magick is an art; using reality and the world as its canvas.
— Dacha Avelin
While the world of reality has its limits, the world of your imagination is without boundaries
— Wayne Dyer
It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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
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
We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about.
— Charlie Haden
I was kind of freaked out by the art world in the 1980s. Just the money thing. All the competition over artists.
— Kim Gordon
Art is about the messy and marvelous business of coming to your senses - and also, to the senses of the world.
— Michael Leunig
Just as there is no substitute for original works of art, there is no substitute for the world of direct sensual experience.
— Paul Mellon
[My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.'
— Salvador Dali
The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.
— Natalie Jeremijenko
Most art in the world does not have a capital 'A,' but is a way of turning everyday objects into personal expressions.
— Gloria Steinem
Ascot is so exclusive that it is the only racecourse in the world where the horses own the people.
— Art Buchwald
Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
— Lady Bird Johnson
We use the term pop in the art world, as in Pop Art, but we forget that its root is popular - popular culture.
— Jeffrey Deitch
Of all the various peoples of this world, none leaves the human body in the simple state of nature in which it was born.
— Jacqueline Delange
Art is contemplation of the world in a state of grace and imaginatively reflecting that subjective understanding.
— Hermann Hesse
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
I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.
— Garry Kasparov
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'm making some of the greatest art being made now. It'll take the art world ten years to get around to it.
— Jeff Koons
For where thou art, there is the world itself,
With every several pleasure in the world,
And where thou art not, desolation. — William Shakespeare
With every several pleasure in the world,
And where thou art not, desolation. — William Shakespeare
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
What the world considers valuable is often not as valuable as what the world considers not valuable.
— Art Hochberg
She must disappear for a time from the human surface,
And sacrifice everything for this,
To recreate herself from the depths of her world. — David Foenkinos
And sacrifice everything for this,
To recreate herself from the depths of her world. — David Foenkinos
In our world, love, sex, music, and dance are all integrated into one experience. Love, and the arts of music and dance go together.
— Ron Galella
It's sort of a law of the art world: The stuff that grows in importance is only the stuff you bought because it wowed you.
— Douglas Coupland
The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.
— H.L. Mencken
The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever.
— Bruce Beresford
The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates it in the work of art.
— Ernest Becker
A man that steps aside from the world and has leisure to observe it without interest and design, thinks all mankind as mad as they think him.
— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax
All art needs this visible world and will always need it. Quite simply because, being accessible to all, it is the key to all other worlds.
— Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
And that's the best we can hope for from art, you know? That it changes you for the better. That it lights up the world a little bit.
— Ben Monopoli
These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a god- like ease and power.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The almighty dollar and the lust for world wide fame, slowly killed tradition, and for that someone should hang.
— George Strait
Art is the attention we pay to the wholeness of the world.
— Guy Davenport
What he imagines evokes nothing imaginary, it evokes the reality of the world that experience and reason treat in a confused manner.
— Rene Magritte
In a way, art is a theory about the way the world looks to human beings. It's abundantly obvious that one doesn't know the world around us in detail
— James Gleick
Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
— Muhammad Iqbal
You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.
— Kit Williams
The world is divine because the world is inconsequential. That is why art alone, by being equally inconsequential, is capable of grasping it.
— Albert Camus
To choose art means to turn one's back on the world, or at least on certain of its distractions.
— Melvin Maddocks
I'm enamored with the art world.
— Steve Martin
Don't carry the world around or your history around like a burden. In fact, don't carry it around at all. One step at a time.
— Art Hochberg
The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world.
— Roger Scruton
Who is one's audience, the spiritually hostile professional art world or one's visually insensitive Christian neighbour?
— John Walford
Art would be useless if the world were perfect.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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
I've been slagged off completely by the art world.
— Tracey Emin
Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
— Gustave Flaubert
Creating art and creating ourselves are the same act; art, world, ourselves - these are continuous with one another.
— Deena Metzger
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
Art goes into the world unarmed, vulnerable to every quirk of fate, and it must survive only by its power to move men not to destroy it.
— Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.
— Caio Fonseca
Our aim is to take our art to the world and make people understand what it is to move.
— David Belle
I just try to get away with as much as I can. I don't think that's very radical in the art world.
— Barry McGee
What the art world has done, it has been constantly been pushing the boundaries about what art can be. It's like expanding its territory.
— Tom Rachman
As art reveals the artist more than the world, so you see yourself and what you are not in the mirror of another culture.
— Jennifer Stone
Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
— Gwendolyn Brooks
How pale is the art of sorcerers, witches, and conjurors when compared with that of the government's Treasury Department!
— Ludwig Von Mises
Art matters because it is the one true great connector in a world that seems to be very unconnected.
— Josh Groban
I see a movie as a way of learning about the world, about myself, and learning about my relationship with people and art.
— Ang Lee
The art world was very small and the people got together at parties. There was less commercialism.
— Claes Oldenburg
Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else
that's how you'll get ahead. — Austin Kleon
that's how you'll get ahead. — Austin Kleon
Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos ... to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.
— John Cheever
My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
— Carl Andre
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
— Edmond De Goncourt
Art is not only about something; it is something. A work of art is a thing in the world, not just a text or commentary on the world.
— Susan Sontag
There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
The safest way to avoid the world is through art; and the safest way to be linked to the world is through art.
— Randall Jarrell
The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.
— Paul Strand
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 whole world is an art gallery when you're mindful. There are beautiful things everywhere and they're free.
— Charles Tart
An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
— Friedrich Von Schlegel