Quotes About Art

Most people in America think Art is a man's name.

Sex is the biggest nothing of all time.

Everybody has their own America, and then they have pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they can't see…So the fantasy corners of America…you've pieced them together from scenes in movies and music and lines from books. And you live in your dream America that you've custom-made from art and schmaltz and emotions just as much as you live in your real one.

I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.

The world fascinates me.

Making money is art. And working is art. And good business is the best art.

I always notice flowers.

I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.

Business art is the step that comes after art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist. Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. During the hippie era people put down the idea of business. They'd say "money is bad" and "working is bad". But making money is art, and working is art - and good business is the best art.

I never read. I just look at pictures.

I like money on the wall. Say you were going to buy a $200,000 painting. I think you should take that money, tie it up, and hang it on the wall. Then when someone visited you the first thing they would see is the money on the wall.

Being in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art, and good business is the best art

You'd be surprised how many people want to hang an electric chair on their living-room wall. Specially if the background color matches the drapes.

Es imposible hacer una película sin reescribir totalmente la historia.

No les interesa la pintura. Catherine Guinness [véase Introducción] no se puso pesada hasta el último día, cuando empezó con esa cosa tan fastidiosa que hacen los ingleses de preguntar y preguntar: «¿Qué es exactamente el pop art?». Era como cuando entrevistamos a ese chico del blues, Albert King, para Interview, y ella le preguntó: «¿Qué es exactamente el soul?».

Everything's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.

I can never get over when you're on the beach how beautiful the sand looks and the water washes it away and straightens it up and the trees and the grass all look great. I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

Yarn bombing is about reclaiming and personalizing sterile or cold public places," Delia answered

Maybe knitting is like writing a story-- an act of discovery. But that seems unlikely, given the very precise directions.

We write to expose the unexposed. Most human beings are dedicated to keeping that one door shut. But the writer's job is to see what's behind it, to see the bleak unspeakable stuff, and to turn the unspeakable into words - not just into any words but if we can, into rhythm and blues.

I'd like to learn how to needlepoint.

truth? The Louvre

Mary Anne took a deep breath, then she let Claudia have it, screamed at her, threw the easel to the floor and dumped plaster of paris on her head. Actually, that was what I would've done, but not Mary Anne.