Art Quotes

“I'm very much into the costuming of any character that I portray and it's one of the great things about making movies is it's a collaborative art form so you get all these artists who are looking specifically about for this instance your character's costume and what that might tell about your character.”

-- Jeff Bridges

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

-- Anthony Kiedis

“I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.”

-- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

“Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.”

-- Oliver Herford

“There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.”

-- Andre Gide

“It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.”

-- Eddie Vedder

“People who don't like me talk about it as though I'm trash because I have tattoos. I find that insane because it's 2008, not the 1950s. Tattoos aren't limited to sailors. It's a form of art I find beautiful. I love it.”

-- Megan Fox

“Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.”

-- Camille Paglia

“All I owe the world is my art.”

-- Sherman Alexie

“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”

-- George Bernard Shaw