“If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.”
Quotes about art
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“Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you.”
“Back then, I didn't have a big organization around me. I was just a kid with a guitar, traveling around. My responsibility basically was to the art, and I had extra time on my hands. There is no extra time now. There isn't enough time.”
“There's no being wrong in seeing something in art, only being disagreed with.”
“I think good art does come from a dark place.”
“I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.”
“Literature has drawn a funny perimeter that other art forms haven't.”
“Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist.”
“It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.”
“What I'm doing is art - it's low-brow art but there's a magic in that.”
“Art allows people a way to dream their way out of their struggle.”
“I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.”
“I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.”
“To be honest, I sort of feel like 'movie actor' isn't of this time. I love it. But it's a 20th-century art form.”
“I view art as an inspirational tool.”
“What is art but a way of seeing?”
“Any fool can have bad luck the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.”
“Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.”
“Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.”
“Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.”
“It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.”
“I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.”
“It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.”
“The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.”