Art

Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the time. I looked at magazines, Id practice in front of the mirror and Id ask photographers about the best angles. I can now pull out a smile at will. – Tyra Banks

Its an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul. – Robert Redford

Im not interested in pop art. – Billy Corgan

Id love to go to art school. Id love to learn how to draw. Id love to be fluent in Spanish. Id like to be a brain surgeon. – Billie Joe Armstrong

People of art should never get married and have children, because its a selfish experience. – Mikhail Baryshnikov

I dont need the money, dear. I work for art. – Maria Callas

Its a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. – W. H. Auden

In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artists obsession with his subject the form is always in proportion to the obsession. – Alberto Giacometti

In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. – Kristin Scott Thomas

Although all the good arts serve to draw mans mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure. – Nicolaus Copernicus

Life is very nice, but it lacks form. Its the aim of art to give it some. – Jean Anouilh

Im very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. Its the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange. – Nick Cave

Shadows sometimes people dont see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny. – David Hockney

People criticized me for my photography. They said its not art. – David Hockney

I always feel like the arts there and I just see it, so its not really a lot of work. – Damien Hirst

Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I dont mind, Im just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isnt really a mainstream anymore, is there? – David Hockney

If you dont get noticed, you dont have anything. You just have to be noticed, but the art is in getting noticed naturally, without screaming or without tricks. – Leo Burnett

Real popular culture is folk art – coalminers songs and so forth. – Noam Chomsky

Its important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of culture for thousands of years before. These were very intelligent, subtle and sophisticated people, with organized societies and great art. – Henry Louis Gates

In our life there is a single color, as on an artists palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love. – Marc Chagall