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

“Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.”

-- Ben Okri

“Many say an art dealer running a museum is a 'conflict of interest.' But maybe the art world has lived an artificial or unintentional lie all of these years when it comes to conflicts of interest.”

-- Jerry Saltz

“Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools - only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in art.”

-- Jerry Saltz

“Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.”

-- Henri Matisse

“I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.”

-- Jackson Pollock

“Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.”

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise.”

-- Christian Bale

“Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.”

-- Pablo Picasso

“Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.”

-- Sylvia Plath