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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
There's a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to eat.
— Mario Batali
The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
— Golda Meir
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
No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
— Edgar Degas
The Art of Facing Things What people have forgotten is what every salmon knows. - ROBERT CLARK
— Mark Nepo
Motivational speaking is the art of telling people what they have been told before ... without them noticing.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Combining the concrete and the universal is at the center of what makes art important.
— Robert Adams
True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be.
— William Rounseville Alger
Ursula K. Le Guin urges authors to remember why they do what they do. Her argument is that writing is an form of art rather than a commodity.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.
— Seth Godin
What is art but a way of seeing?
— Saul Bellow
Art is a matter strictly of experience, not of principles and what counts first and last in art is quality, all other things are secondary.
— Clement Greenberg
What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit.
— Richard Attenborough
What is desperately needed ... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.
— Felix Rohatyn
Avoid methodology. If what you're doing is about technique, that's not art.
— Kay WalkingStick
What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life.
— Miuccia Prada
The purpose of art is to provide what life does not.
— Tom Robbins
What is art? Prostitution.
— Charles Baudelaire
The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.
— Hillary Clinton
We don't know what the next generation of art is going to look like. We're kind of making it up as we go along. Not unlike the tech industry.
— Hasan M. Elahi
Children do have the potential to kill art. But now I think they kill the bad art. At least that is what my son has done for me.
— Kevin Wilson
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
To me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it.
— Noah Taylor
An artist's responsibility is simple: to say through his art what can't be said any other way.
— Marty Rubin
Poetry is what you can't translate. Art is what you can't define. Film is what you can't explain. But we're going to try, anyway.
— James Monaco
What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.
— Peter Zumthor
What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most?
— George Eliot
The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.
— Lawrence Durrell
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
— John Ciardi
And what is death, if not a face at peace - its artistic perfection.
— Vladimir Nabokov
One of my goals as a professor of English is to teach students to recognize and think critically about what makes something art.
— Andrew Hoberek
What is Christian in art does not lie in the theme but in the spirit of it, in its wisdom and the understanding of reality it reflects.
— Hans Rookmaaker
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
Like creating a masterpiece, quitting is an art: you have to decide what to keep within the frame and what to keep out.
— Richie Norton
Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself.
— Decimius Magnus Ausonius
I never went to school for art or was told what to like or when. So every day is a learning process, like most of life.
— Leo Fitzpatrick
Whether it's horses or whatever it is you do, it doesn't become an art until your soul goes into what you do.
— Buck Brannaman
What the world considers valuable is often not as valuable as what the world considers not valuable.
— Art Hochberg
I am not a food critic. Or a chef. Or even a professional writer. What I am schooled in the art of, however, is enjoying myself.
— Jewel Staite
Art is what separates us from the animals.
— Iimani David
What makes daily life interesting is that we try to transform it to something that is close to art.
— Arsene Wenger
I put everything I can into a record. That's what art is for. I take a risk every time I do one with my whole being.
— Dan Fogelberg
Learning what to want is the most radical, the most painful and the most creative art of life.
— Geoffrey Vickers
In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been.
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
All art is contemporary, if it's alive, and if it's not alive, what's the point of it?
— David Hockney
Art is what is irresistible.
— William, Saroyan
Politics is the art of realizing what there is to realize.
— Adam Michnik
I think that, like any art, fashion is about expression. It allows you to express yourself and your identity through what you choose to wear.
— Erin Heatherton
I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn, and one in which to practice his art.
— Pierre Bonnard
Our aim is to take our art to the world and make people understand what it is to move.
— David Belle
Models need to be judged by what they eliminate as much as by what they include - like stone carving, the art is in removing what you do not need.
— John H. Miller
Some say, what is the Salvation of the Movies? I say, run 'em backwards. It can't hurt 'em and it's worth a trial.
— Will Rogers
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
The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
— George Santayana
It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him.
— Robert Henri
Life is more important than art; that's what makes art important.
— James A. Baldwin
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
What characterizes a poem is its necessary dependence on words as much as its struggle to transcend them.
— Octavio Paz
But what is art other than revealing human nature?
— Marina Abramovic
You were programmed to deliver a message, and the creation of that message is your greatest art. What is the message? Your life.
— Miguel Angel Ruiz
The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
— Elia Kazan
I have a pretty expanded view of what art is. I include pop music and even some sports.
— Elizabeth Price
To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing for 10 shillings what any fool can do for a pound
— Duke Of Wellington
A game played with serious problems. That's what art is.
— Kurt Schwitters
Without arts programmes there's only reality TV, and reality TV needs the arts to show it what reality is.
— Billy Connolly
Organized perception is what art is all about.
— Roy Lichtenstein
What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.
— Tahar Rahim
Notice I did not say what people can dowhat we can do is merely a consequence of what we can be. — Max DePree
What you respond to in any work of art is the artist's struggle against his or her limitations
— Kurt Vonnegut
The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward.
— Joseph Campbell
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
— Laurence J. Peter
What is true stillness? Stillness in movement.
— Bruce Lee
