Quotes of: Liberal-arts Keyword

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

Baltasar Gracian

When I was an art student in the early 60's before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist.

Bill Griffith

The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both.

Ben Hecht

The most glorious thing about working in the collaborative art is when you have somebody like Susan Kingsley or Kathy Bates who are better than your play.

Beth Henley

Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.

Barbara Januszkiewicz

As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'

Barry McGee

I have just gained a deeper and deeper respect for acting and the whole art of it because you're really trying to live a life and to do the best justification for it.

Billy Magnussen

In art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist.

Bruce Nauman

What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become.

Bruce Nauman

When I was 10, I knew there was something different about me. Everyone was football-mad, but I just wanted to watch musicals and see art.

Bruno Tonioli

Art is, for me, the process of trying to wake up the soul. Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep.

Bill Viola

The future art historians are going to be software guys who are going to go into the depths of the code to find out what was changed hundreds of years before.

Bill Viola

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

Charles Baudelaire

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

Charles Baudelaire

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

Charles Baudelaire

Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.

Charles Baudelaire

My life is a monument to procrastination, to the art of putting things off until later, or much later, or possibly never.

Craig Brown

Like many men, I am highly skilled in the art of losing things but prefer to outsource the recovery process.

Craig Brown

You don't have to be Picasso or Rembrandt to create something. The fun of it, the joy of creating, is way high above anything else to do with the art form.

Chick Corea

I feel like contemporary art is everywhere now and with the rise of the internet, it's so much easier to see what artists are doing and to follow their careers.

China Chow

In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.

Chuck Close