Quotes of: Visual-arts Keyword

I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art.

David Foster Wallace

There is a huge thirst for knowledge among the younger generation for contemporary art, but most of them learn about it by going on the Internet.

Dasha Zhukova

No, my degree was history, not the practice of art! I can't draw to save my life you know.

Emma Anderson

I just get the feeling that if Jesse Helms was in charge of art in America, you'd go into a museum and see nothing but prints of dogs playing cards.

Elayne Boosler

I'm interested in all kinds of art. I draw and paint and don't know how to play the banjo, but I do play the banjo.

Ellar Coltrane

The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.

E. M. Forster

The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.

Eric Hoffer

Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.

Eugenio Montale

Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.

Ezra Pound

In my previous life, I was an artist. I still paint. I love art.

Edi Rama

I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.

Edith Sitwell

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.

Erik Satie

In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

I cannot live without art: it excites me, it challenges me, and it leads me to the next thing.

Francisco Costa

I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.

Fab Five Freddy

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm not an art director; I'm just not. I've always been somebody who has a sensibility that I hope is the same sensibility of others.

Frank Oz

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We need art more than ever as we stagger toward the Millennium.

Fritz Scholder

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.

Frank Wedekind