Art Quotes

I just try to get away with as much as I can. I don't think that's very radical in the art world.

Barry McGee

I'm really into California art from the '60s. I like a lot of Bay Area artists, like Nathan Oliveira and Bruce Conner.

Barry McGee

I like the idea that you can paint something outdoors, and anyone can see it. It's open to anyone, and people have to deal with it. In the gallery, it's the same 150 people on the San Francisco art scene. There's a dynamic on the street that's defini...

Barry McGee

Once people have seen four or five Henry Moores, they will have a sense of great art.

Bess Myerson

When the business starts shaping the art, or the delivery of the art, then it's not right.

Bob Mould

Then in college, besides economics, I also majored in studio art and got involved in photography and making short films and acting. But I didn't know you could make a living that way.

Brit Marling

Graffiti's always been a temporary art form. You make your mark and then they scrub it off.

Banksy

Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that.

Banksy

There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it.

Banksy

I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.

Banksy

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

Bono

In art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist.

Bruce Nauman

What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become.

Bruce Nauman

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

Ben Okri

Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.

Ben Okri

My parents have always given me whatever I wanted. Took me to the ballet, the opera, museum exhibitions. I was always surrounded by art. It's their fault I've become an actress.

Bar Paly

My first film was a movie shot in 1974. I was 18 on that movie set. It was called 'Big Bad Mama.' I turned 19 on the next movie I worked on, which was a black 'Blazing Saddles.' I worked in the art department. It was called 'Darktown Strutters.'

Bill Paxton

I came out to Hollywood when I was just 18, and my dad, he was really into Hollywood and theater and art, and I guess growing up, he exposed me to a lot of culture, and I just started making Super-8 films in high school and decided I wanted to be a f...

Bill Paxton

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

Blaise Pascal

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

Boris Pasternak

So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point.

Brian De Palma