Quotes of: Thou-art Keyword

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Iris Murdoch

A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.

Issey Miyake

Free enterprise is not a bad idea and has produced art.

Ishmael Reed

Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.

Josef Albers

I've been really trying to hone the art of songwriting in a way that doesn't follow any sort of guideline.

James Blake

I resent the fact that a parental warning sticker has to be included on an album as cover art. To me that's censorship.

Jeff Buckley

In art and music, particularly in the 20th century, there was a big period there where for something to be called profound you had to not be able to understand it.

Joshua Bell

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Jean Cocteau

There is a constant ebb and flow in art historical reputations. The reputation of even the greatest figures like Picasso are in flux.

Jeffrey Deitch

Art, film, fashion, music are all going on and interacting simultaneously. And L.A. is very receptive to that fusion.

Jeffrey Deitch

Cats are anthropomorphised in art because they are so laid back that you automatically attribute human thoughts and feelings to them.

Jim Davis

There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him.

Jacob Epstein

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.

J. Paul Getty

I don't think I'm making any great statements, and I certainly don't think I'm making art.

John Hughes

It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble.

Joseph Jarman

I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.

Jeff Koons

Art was something I could do better. It gave me a sense of self.

Jeff Koons

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