Art Quotes

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

Peter De Vries

Silent films were, I think, more different than we know to sound films. We think of it as simply that we added dialogue and in actual fact I think it was an entirely different art form.

Peter Weir

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

Peter Wright

I think that the first part of the art is making the art, but when art really becomes art is when it belongs to somebody else.

Pete Wentz

The newsprint thesp celebrity interview as a middle-brow art form suffers from desperate overproduction. There'll be at least 10 in the broadsheets today and every Sunday hereafter.

Peter York

What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.

Peter Zumthor

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

Quintilian

Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.

Questlove

A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but they aren't savvy enough to know how to balance commerce and art, you know? They don't know how to satisfy both palates...

Q-Tip

I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.

Quentin Tarantino

At that time, the academic orientation was rather technical contrary to that of the university, where art theory is very important. The teachers were renowned artists and among the best of that time.

Ralph Allen

I would wake up at night and think, 'What the hell have I gotten myself into? You don't want to do that!' But you gotta do something, and with art, there's freedom - which is actually very seldom practiced by artists.

Richard Artschwager

There isn't any art until some creature sees and consumes it. And has a reaction.

Richard Artschwager

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

Richard Attenborough

I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable.

Richard Avedon

Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.

Richard Avedon

When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished.

Robert Adams

Criticism really used to hurt me. Most of these critics are usually frustrated artists, and they criticise other people's art because they can't do it themselves. It's a really disgusting job. They must feel horrible inside.

Rosanna Arquette

Art is such an important part of our culture.

Rosanna Arquette

It's so hard to be a mother and to also want to practice your art.

Rosanna Arquette

Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.

Rudolf Arnheim