Art Quotes

One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.

Anish Kapoor

I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.

Anselm Kiefer

Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.

Anselm Kiefer

Art really is something very difficult. It is difficult to make, and it is sometimes difficult for the viewer to understand. It is difficult to work out what is art and what is not art.

Anselm Kiefer

Art is difficult. It's not entertainment.

Anselm Kiefer

Buying art is not understanding art.

Anselm Kiefer

When I see a new artist I give myself a lot of time to reflect and decide whether it's art or not.

Anselm Kiefer

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.

Anthony Kiedis

Cinema is an art form.

Anurag Kashyap

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.

Arthur Koestler

Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I ...

Ashton Kutcher

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Abraham Lincoln

The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.

Adolf Loos

The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone. The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of c...

Adolf Loos

The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

Adolf Loos

Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort. He hates everything that wants to draw him out of his acquired and secured position and that disturbs him. Thus he loves the house and hates art.

Adolf Loos

And the thing that I always tried to do with important singers when I met them was to sit down and record everything they knew, give them a first real run-through of their art.

Alan Lomax

I enjoyed art in school. I've always done little drawings and stuff like that. I don't really know what I'm doing with the painting, but I experiment.

Alex Lifeson

Evanescence fans aren't the popular kids in school. They aren't the cheerleaders. It's the art kids and the nerds and the kids who grow up to be the most interesting creative people.

Amy Lee

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

I went to school at the San Francisco Art Institute, thinking I was going to become an art teacher. Within the first six months I was there, I was told that I couldn't be an art teacher unless I became an artist first.

Annie Leibovitz