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Art

What Im doing is art – its low-brow art but theres a magic in that. – Kesha

I realize that every picture isnt a work of art. – Conrad Hall

To be honest, I sort of feel like movie actor isnt of this time. I love it. But its a 20th-century art form. – Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they cant articulate. – Mos Def

Celebrity doesnt have anything to do with art or craft. Its about being rich and thinking that youre better than everybody else. – Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Ive sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture. – Danny Boyle

Id like to introduce someone who has just come into my life. Ive admired him for 35 years. Hes someone who represents integrity, honesty, art, and on top of that stuff Im actually sleeping with him. – Shirley MacLaine

I choose films for their artistic value. I dont need a mansion or a Jaguar. When I leave this Earth, I wont take any money with me. All I will leave behind will be my art. – Brad Renfro

Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. Its delightful to distort size, to see something thats tiny as though it were vast. – Robert Morgan

Only in mens imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life. – Joseph Conrad

Rock isnt art, its the way ordinary people talk. – Billy Idol

Tell me thy company, and Ill tell thee what thou art. – Miguel de Cervantes

I was very much into buying contemporary art, but Ive just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that its not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters. – Sylvester Stallone

I did this Super-8 film at art school called Tissues, this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it, and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it. – Jane Campion

Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem. – Lindsay Anderson

Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman. – Guillaume Apollinaire

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mothers womb. – Jean Arp

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory. – Francis Bacon

All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up. – James Baldwin

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning. – Jacques Barzun