Art Quotes

I really don't like art where you need to know so much theory to understand. If the theory is removed, it doesn't do anything. That means that this work is an illustration of theory, and I don't believe in the power of the work itself.

Marina Abramovic

I am not a therapist. I am not a spiritual leader. These elements are in the art: it is therapeutic, spiritual, social and political - everything. It has many layers. But art has to have many layers. If it doesn't, then forget it.

Marina Abramovic

I think 21st century should be art without objects.

Marina Abramovic

I really think there's no difference between an art piece made by a man and one made by a woman. Is it a good art piece or a bad art piece? Of course, if you're female, you're maybe dealing with different issues.

Marina Abramovic

Performance is there, and if you are not there in that moment it happened, it just stays in the memory. It's so immaterial and something this immaterial is very difficult to collect. Its difficult to buy, its how we can buy immaterial art.

Marina Abramovic

You know, art is very emotional business. But mostly it becomes not emotional, the fabric of commodity. It becomes business. It becomes so many different things. Because we forgot there was emotions involved.

Marina Abramovic

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.

Martin Amis

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without the thorn.

Martin Amis

If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right.

Maxwell Anderson

I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.

Maya Angelou

One of my favorite films is 'Late Spring' by Yasujiro Ozu. To me, it represents film as art.

Michael Arndt

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

Dale Carnegie

There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.

Malik Bendjelloul

There's a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to eat.

Mario Batali

Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you.

Martha Beck

New York City is one of the greatest places on the planet. You have the best in food, art, theatre, and definitely people-watching.

Matt Bomer

An interesting thing happened in 1989, right as I was graduating: the stock market crashed and really changed the landscape of the art world in New York. It made the kind of work I was doing interesting to galleries that wouldn't have normally been i...

Matthew Barney

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.

Max Beckmann

What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part in my art.

Max Beckmann

When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.

Max Beerbohm

We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources and rules - without external borrowing from natural phenomena, without transforming those phenomena, in other words: not by abstraction.

Max Bill