Art Quotes

“Many art-worlders have an if-you-say-so approach to art: Everyone is so scared of missing out on the next hot artist that it's never clear whether people are liking work because they like it or because other people do. Everyone is keeping up with the Joneses, and there are more Joneses than ever.”

-- Jerry Saltz

“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