“The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.”
Art refuses to sit still or be easily defined, and the best quotes about it do the same. Here you will find painters, sculptors, musicians, and writers wrestling with creativity, beauty, meaning, and the maddening gap between what you imagine and what you manage to make.
“A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.”
“The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.”
“A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.”
“Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.”
“Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise.”
“Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.”
“The art of pleasing is the art of deception.”
“I don't think there is such a thing as being too raunchy when it comes to the art form of burlesque.”
“Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.”
“I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.”
“I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.”
“I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.”
“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.”
“Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.”
“The cult of art gives pride one never has too much of it.”
“Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.”