To choose art means to turn one's back on the world, or at least on certain of its distractions.
Melvin MaddocksEvery human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story.
Miguel Angel RuizMusic is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.
Michael TippettThe industry needs to be run by artists, because we are the only people that care about art.
Nikki SixxArt Nouveau got its inspiration from nature. The Bauhaus got its inspiration from engineering.
P. J. O'RourkeI think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable.
Richard AvedonWhen art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished.
Robert Adams