I never called my work an art. Its part of show business, the business of building entertainment. – Walt Disney
When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is mans life. – Marcus Aurelius
Surely all art is the result of ones having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further. – Rainer Maria Rilke
Perhaps its good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if hes happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life? – Aldous Huxley
I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because theyre good or there because theyre lucky. – Katharine Hepburn
To array a mans will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. – Henry Ward Beecher
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we dont start measuring her limbs. – Pablo Picasso
I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I cant help it. Its the truth. – Charlie Chaplin
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 Ive a call. – Sylvia Plath
Life doesnt imitate art, it imitates bad television. – Woody Allen
All in the Family was intellectual it was art. – Carroll OConnor
What is Art? It is the response of mans creative soul to the call of the Real. – Rabindranath Tagore
And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves Its pretty, but is it Art? – Rudyard Kipling
A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways theyre capable of understanding. – Steve Prefontaine
When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it – a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand – as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If theres a clash between the two, its bad art. – Marc Chagall
Creative without strategy is called art. Creative with strategy is called advertising. – Jef I. Richards
Really I dont like human nature unless all candied over with art. – Virginia Woolf
I dont think about art when Im working. I try to think about life. – Jean-Michel Basquiat
Criticism is the art of appraising others at ones own value. – George Jean Nathan
To do a dull thing with style-now thats what I call art. – Charles Bukowski
