Art Quotes
Hollywood is showing respect for all different types of art.
Ashton Sanders
American actor
I am planning a one-man art show of original Batman oil paintings that I will show in New York City.
Bob Kane
American comic book writer
I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.
Fab Five Freddy
American visual artist
Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.
Richard Avedon
American photographer
If you took away all pain, if everyone lived forever, everything would be bland, flat and boring; there would be no reason for art, music, newspapers, love because we would all be in a mono state of happiness.
Matt Haig
Author
Wrestling is the ultimate martial art.
Mark Schultz
American wrestler
Originality is the art of concealing your source.
Franklin P. Jones
American columnist
It costs a lot of money to release a movie. What you'd call art-house movies - movies that don't have big stars or big budgets - they're very hard for distributors to get behind 'em and take chances.
Bryan Brown
Australian actor
At its best, what art does is, it points to who we as human beings and what we as human beings value. And if Black Lives Matter, they deserve to be in paintings.
Kehinde Wiley
American painter
The end of the trial and the 'not guilty' verdicts on all counts, clearing Michael of all charges, mean that he can now concentrate on the future and his art.
Latoya Jackson
American singer
The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.
Keanu Reeves
Canadian actor
Music has the power to bring people together like no other art form.
Michael Franti
American musician
I had some great times doing competitions, but I have always been more into making movies because making movies is more about art and expressing yourself in a creative way.
Candide Thovex
French professional skier,
I've been at this for a while, and to a very real extent, you look at cover art with the same sort of expectation you have for playing slot machines in Vegas. That is to say, you hope to break even and promise yourself not to flinch when all you get is the same sort of mix of fruit that you get in a cup of generic fruit cocktail.
James A. Moore
American novelist
I decided at 40 I was wasting entire chunks of my brain and didn't want to blow my one chance on Earth. I'm glad I made that decision. Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space. Sometimes, as with film, you can hybridize, but I think it's basically the space part of my brain wanting equal footing with the time part.
Douglas Coupland
Canadian novelist
I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.
Rebecca Miller
American filmmaker
There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.
Mao Zedong
Former President of the People's Republic of China
I pledge allegiance to the living, and I will defend art from history. I will rescue art from the future, from its attrition into taste, and from the speculative notion that it will become more valuable with time.
Rene Ricard
American poet
At a certain point, I had so much artwork that I decided to respect the art and present them in a nice way, not just on a dusty shelf.
Iliza Shlesinger
American comedienne
Fiction is able to do one thing better than any other art form: it is able to convey a convincing sense of what is going on in someone else's head. To me, that is the great mystery of life: what is everyone else thinking?
Arthur Phillips
American novelist
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