Art Quotes

“What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.”

-- Lady Gaga

“When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.”

-- Max Beerbohm

“Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isn't any good. But everyone has a different opinion about which 85 percent is bad. That in turn creates fantastically unstable interplay and argument.”

-- Jerry Saltz

“When art wins, everyone wins.”

-- Jerry Saltz

“Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.”

-- Edward Koch

“Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.”

-- Edmund Burke

“Great art picks up where nature ends.”

-- Marc Chagall

“Life is the art of being well deceived and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.”

-- William Hazlitt

“It's clever, but is it Art?”

-- Rudyard Kipling

“I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.”

-- Walt Whitman