Quotes of: Arts Keyword

A lot of my work is about sales. And it was about being independent from the art market.

Jeff Koons

It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned.

James Lafferty

I have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful as you can.

James Mercer

When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.

Jeanne Moreau

I wanted to make a traditional record that had a lot of art and showed my vulnerable side and showed things I'm passionate about.

Joe Nichols

I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.

Jack O'Connell

Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title.

Joe Rogan

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

John Ruskin

Art collecting has traditionally been the domain of wealthy individuals in search of rewards beyond the purely financial.

James Surowiecki

In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact.

Jerry Saltz

Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good.

Jerry Saltz

Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness.

Jerry Saltz

Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles him. Me included.

Jerry Saltz

The art world is an all-volunteer force. No one has to be here if he or she doesn't want to be, and we should be associating with anyone we want to.

Jerry Saltz

I think art is a consolation regardless of its content. It has the power to move and make you feel like you're not.

Jeff Tweedy

I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.

Jeanette Winterson

Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it'll be good, and the public will know it.

John Wayne

The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.

Konrad Adenauer

The more I see and know about life, the more ideas I have and the more I want to make art.

Kirsten Dunst

I was kind of freaked out by the art world in the 1980s. Just the money thing. All the competition over artists.

Kim Gordon

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

Karl Marx