In an artwork youre always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death. – Damien Hirst
I think an artists responsibility is more complex than people realize. – Jodie Foster
To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, theres no such thing as perfect. – Alexander Calder
I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but Ive done many. – Robert Indiana
A fools brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. – George Bernard Shaw
Theres no art to find the minds construction in the face. – William Shakespeare
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, its dead for you. – Oscar Wilde
A mans work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened. – Albert Camus
If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and Ill say it. – John Lennon
Diplomacy is the art of saying Nice doggie until you can find a rock. – Will Rogers
Well, Art is Art, isnt it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know. – Groucho Marx
Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist. – Edgar Allan Poe
Envy is the art of counting the other fellows blessings instead of your own. – Harold Coffin
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when its all over. – Octavia Butler
Were going to shoot one Polaroid per show. Im going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once it develops with my signature on it, its worth a fortune. Ill make this a work of magic warlock art. – Charlie Sheen
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they dont have for something they dont need. – Will Rogers
Love isnt an emotion or an instinct – its an art. – Mae West
Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighters honor. – Ernest Hemingway
In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemys country whole and intact to shatter and destroy it is not so good. – Sun Tzu
I think art is the only thing thats spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other peoples interpretations of God. I dont think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means. – Marilyn Manson
