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Quotes About Art

I don't have a favorite place to see art. I like to encounter it anywhere, museum, gallery, home, studio, street... I do prefer to see good art, when I see art, but it doesn't matter where I see it.
~ James Nares
I grew up in a very artistic, cultured home, but without any kind of spirituality. My parents were secular materialists, so I saw art as having an alternate value.
~ Daniel Pinchbeck
You play a part, and as soon as a movie is over and the camera stops, you go home and you're not really responsible for what you've done.
~ Nastassja Kinski
I make home movies-therefore I live. I live - therefore I make home movies.
~ Jonas Mekas
A real Rembrandt hung in a millionaire's home elevator would undoubtedly make for kitsch.
~ Matei Calinescu
Selfishness in art, as in other things, is sensibility kept at home.
~ WASHINGTON ALLSTON
It is a remarkably beautiful piece of home furnishing, the Oscar. I used to keep it up in front of a mirror so that it looked like two
~ Mercedes McCambridge
My home has always been show business.
~ Sammy Davis, Jr.
Art is for [the Irish] inseparable from artifice: of that, the theatre is the home. Possibly, it was England made me a novelist.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
I'd rather be home alone, painting.
~ Margaret Keane
The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.
~ Yoko Ono
I think I feel much more at home in studio.
~ Robert Barry
Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness
~ Mark Twain
You can't go home and listen to Chopin, and just use it.
~ Mick Farren
I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home.
~ Philip Levine
I feel like my home is stage acting.
~ Phoebe Waller-Bridge
My videos rarely run longer than 20 minutes. They're made for private viewing in your home or specifically either that or for a gallery situation where you sit and look.
~ Robert Barry
I have always found it a testament to the importance of painting that the first thing many people do when their home is on fire is to grab their paintings and then run out.
~ Robert Genn
Home is where the heart is, home is where the fart is.Come let us fart in the home.There is no art in a fart.Still a fart may not be artless.Let us fart and artless fart in the home.
~ Ernest Hemingway, 88 Poems
Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.
~ Seamus Heaney
Making art has first of all to do with honesty. My first lesson was to see objectively, to erase all meaning of the thing seen. Then only could the real meaning of it be understood and felt.
~ Ellsworth Kelly
Drawing is the honesty of art.
~ Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Artistic honesty sometimes prevents an artist from being born.
~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you.
~ Thomas Kretschmann