Art Quotes

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Luc de Clapiers

I've studied astrology for many, many years, and I feel like it's an incredibly challenging art.

Lynn Collins

I think it would be bad for culture and the art if artists and people who develop the apparatus to support those artists don't get paid.

Lyor Cohen

There are so many reactions to art that make sense to me - but 'ick' means something.

Lena Dunham

The whole point of art school is that you're going to be able to have nudes all day long and a teacher who is there to move you. It's great. I did a tiny bit in the one school in Paris, and it was wonderful because you'd have a nude taking a crazy po...

Lou Doillon

The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.

Louis Dudek

Art is anything people do with distinction.

Louis Dudek

I'm going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for modern art, and I have one for 19th century European art, and one for French impressionism. I've got Japanese.

Larry Ellison

I own a home in Kyoto, Japan actually on the temple on grounds in Nanzenji that is going to become a Japanese art museum.

Larry Ellison

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Ludwig Erhard

Ray Johnson was a great innovator of mail art and photocopying and sending people photocopies.

Leo Fitzpatrick

All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.

Leslie Fiedler

The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I've been thinking about that a lot.

Leslie Fiedler

The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art.

Leslie Fiedler

I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong.

Lucian Freud

I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lacked. With me, it's what Yeats called the fascination with what's difficult. I'm only trying to do what I can't do.

Lucian Freud

The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art.

Lucian Freud

Yes, influences are enriching, and they can be found in every work of art, even the most original.

Lukas Foss

Personality is essential. It is in every work of art. When someone walks on stage for a performance and has charisma, everyone is convinced that he has personality. I find that charisma is merely a form of showmanship. Movie stars usually have it. A ...

Lukas Foss

I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.

Lukas Foss

I don't have to work on it. I'm naturally a writer. The rapping and writing, they can go hand-in-hand - but rapping is an art that you have to practice and master, so I worked at it for a long time.

Lupe Fiasco