Art quotes

I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste.

When art wins, everyone wins.

All art comes from other art, and all immigrants come from other places.

The art gods cooked up something special for James Ensor.

Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts.

I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art.

Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings.

So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die that is to say, civilization will die.

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.

Medicine is not only a science it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.

I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'

Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.

A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind.

History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included... something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. It's a Gigantic project.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.