Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. – W. H. Auden
The art of interpretation is not to play what is written. – Pablo Casals
I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism. – Judy Chicago
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him. – W. H. Auden
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song. – Henri Frederic Amiel
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. – Edith Wharton
Art is the signature of civilizations. – Beverly Sills
Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life. – Brad Holland
Translation is the art of failure. – Umberto Eco
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary. – Boris Pasternak
Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science. – Bruno Bettelheim
The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide. – Keanu Reeves
The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups. – Henry Hazlitt
All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time. – Otto Dix
Success and the art of making music are two different things for me. – Norah Jones
I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old. – David Hockney
How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality? – Lou Reed
It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas. – David Byrne
I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world. – Garry Kasparov
I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness and change, or at least some discussion. – Pink
