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3 December 2020 Robert Browning

It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.

3 December 2020 Khalil Gibran

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz

Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so many artists.

3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz

The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.

3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz

Art is for anyone. It just isn’t for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that’s irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money.

3 December 2020 Tennessee Williams

All good art is an indiscretion.

3 December 2020 Robert Motherwell

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

3 December 2020 Mason Cooley

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

3 December 2020 Edgar Degas

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

3 December 2020 Jim Hodges

When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.

3 December 2020 Sylvia Plath

Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I’ve a call.

3 December 2020 Steve Martin

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

3 December 2020 Noam Chomsky

Real popular culture is folk art – coalminers’ songs and so forth.

3 December 2020 Hans Hofmann

Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.

3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

3 December 2020 Anish Kapoor

Artists don’t make objects. Artists make mythologies.

3 December 2020 Lincoln Steffens

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

3 December 2020 Frank Lloyd Wright

Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz

Poor Georgia O’Keeffe. Death didn’t soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings.

3 December 2020 Lady Gaga

I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song ‘Radio Gaga.’

3 December 2020 Vidal Sassoon

For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.

3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

3 December 2020 Sherman Alexie

All I owe the world is my art.

3 December 2020 Maynard James Keenan

The idea is, if I can’t heal from my art, then how can you heal?

3 December 2020 Ludwig Erhard

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

3 December 2020 Ansel Adams

You don’t take a photograph, you make it.

3 December 2020 Alexander Calder

I paint with shapes.

3 December 2020 Erykah Badu

I’m free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don’t try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don’t compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that.

3 December 2020 Erich Fromm

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

3 December 2020 Robert Smithson

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

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