Art Quotes
“Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.”
“If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.”
-- Anais Nin
“He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.”
-- Arthur Balfour
“Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.”
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
“The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing.”
-- Doris Humphrey
“I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.”
-- Lady Gaga
“Everyone goes to the same exhibitions and the same parties, stays in the same handful of hotels, eats at the same no-star restaurants, and has almost the same opinions. I adore the art world, but this is copycat behavior in a sphere that prides itself on independent thinking.”
-- Jerry Saltz