Quotes About Art

I made my living as an actor, and I love acting, so I'm an actor. But that gets you in a lot of trouble in the art world.

I really believe that women run the art world.

Peggy Guggenheim is a real hero to have done what she did in a man's world, as the art world still is.

The art world would have you believe that anything can be art. But, of course, there's actually many things that aren't art. And we would all recognize it when it isn't.

It's very hard to articulate the things that are important about writing.

I'm not very articulate. The reason I write is because I don't talk.

Writers are articulate. Artists find it more difficult.

I'm an artist, I'm not an activist.

An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

Every artiste has a process.

But as an artiste, I want to challenge myself because that is what art is all about.

Movie, being an art form, should have artistic value and should do justice to the artistes.

Prince had always told us he just wanted to get through this thing called life. But now that his own physical life has ended, his artistic life will continue.

Drama should be taught in schools to have more artistic people.

I certainly don't get any pleasure from watching someone else dancing. That's weird. Why would anyone pay money to watch an adult dance? Just moving around in a rhythmical fashion. It's the worst medium for artistic expression.

Many young artists, they look at the art world and think they can make a lot of money.

I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.

Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract.

One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form.

Children's finger-painting came under the arts, but movies didn't.

I wanted all my life to give my world into other arts - books, plays, movies - but I didn't want to sell out.

Every person, every artist makes his life an artwork.

For artists, we're always looking for approval. We're putting our artwork out there and saying, 'What do you think?'

It is somewhat remarkable that Balzac, dealing as he did with traits of character and the minute and daily circumstances of life, has never been accused of representing actual persons in the two or three thousand portraits which he painted of human nature.