Quotes of: Visual-arts Keyword

Chefs are artists, and I couldn't be happy with my art if I was forced to use cheap ingredients.

Nobu Matsuhisa

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Norman Mailer

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

Oscar Wilde

Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.

Philip James Bailey

My father's violence is the central fact of my art and my life.

Pat Conroy

Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.

Patrick Marber

What art and books do at their best is investigate why we are the way we are.

Philipp Meyer

I definitely believe that art is the best way to produce social change.

Pedro Reyes

Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.

Peter Wright

What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit.

Richard Attenborough

Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Rita Mae Brown

My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

Robert Carlyle

If people think of public art as something the public decides, it's impossible to make anything of substance.

Robert Graham

The pain is bad magicians ripping off good ones, doing magic badly, and making a mockery of the art.

Ricky Jay

More people are exposed to movies than to most other forms of art.

Richard King

The term 'celebrity memoir' has gotten such a bad name now, but there used to be a little bit of an art form to it.

Rob Lowe

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

Rene Magritte

It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.

Robert Motherwell

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

Robert Motherwell

It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.

Robert Redford

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Robert Schumann