Sometimes it is better not to talk about art by using the word "art". If we just act with awareness and integrity, our art will flower, and we don't have to talk about it at all. - Nhat Hanh We definitely don't exist just for the sake of welcoming death someday; I believe we live for the sake of living on." Kazuto Kirigaya "Kirito" (Sword Art Online) - Reki Kawahara It's only at this age that I can say the word 'art' without flinching. - Mira Nair If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist. - Patrick Swayze

Without poets, without artists... everything would fall a part into chaos. There would be no more seasons, no more civilizations, no more thought, no more humanity, no more life even; and impotent darkness would reign forever. Poets and artists together determine the features of their age, and the future meekly conforms to their edit. - Guillaume Apollinaire Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. - Guillaume Apollinaire Without art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without science, we should always worship false gods. - W H Auden Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. - George Bernard Shaw Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but production. - Raymond Chandler The thought process can never be complete without articulation. - Stephen King We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for u...

What is art? Prostitution. - Charles Baudelaire What is art but a way of seeing? - Saul Bellow What is art but the life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite? - Elizabeth Barrett Browning What is art if not a concentrated and impassioned effort to make something with the little we have, the little we see? - Andre Dubus Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life? - Aldous Huxley What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real. - Rabindranath Tagore What is art? (...) Like a declaration of love: the consciousness of our dependence on each other. A confession. An unconscious act that none the less reflects the true meaning of lifelove and sac...

At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways. - Laurie Anderson I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature. - Russell Banks Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music comes first and then later I sit down with visual people and we chat about what we want to do. I don't look at myself as a visual artist. I make music. - Bjork I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time. - David Bowie I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits. - J Carter Brown I am a horrible visual artist. I can't fix a car, sew, k...

What is the essence of the art of writing? Part One: Have something to say. Part Two: Say it well. - Edward Abbey The art of appreciation begins with self appreciation. - Amit Abraham Ohmygod," Jade whispered, panicked. She grabbed my arm and yanked, almost knocking me off balance. "Something moved in those bushes." I shoved her off, pointed to the ground, and smiled. From under the bush, long ears attached to a tiny brown speckles head peeked out. "Yeah. That bunny is a Denazen suit in disguise. Where do you suppose he's hiding his gun? Or maybe he doesn't need one. Maybe he's a martial arts master trained in the art of kickassery. - Jus Accardo If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past. - Dean Acheson Originality is the art of concealing your source. - Franklin P Jones Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art ...

That's the test of street art - to see if anybody stopped. People would cross out ones they didn't like and would star others. I liked that people would engage with them. - Jenny Holzer I needed to take her to a concert, or maybe invite her out to go stencil street art in the middle of the night. Except I hadn't done that since middle school. And I'm not exactly Banksy with a can of spray paint. - Jarod Kintz

It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money. - Dave Barry I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I don't do it. I'm not crazy about categories. - Barbara Kruger Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of my involvement with public art is a continuation of wall drawings. - Sol Lewitt As Mayor, I will fully support my Arts Commission and its professional selection committees so that they can commission a full range of public art that is daring and, when appropriate, daringly traditional. - Gavin Newsom

Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable. - Leonard Baskin Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there's kitsch, schlock, camp, and porn. - Don Delillo I'm definitely a pop artist at heart. - Sheena Easton The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I've been thinking about that a lot. - Leslie Fiedler I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists. - Robert Indiana I don't think geometric art is... I don't like to call it that. I don't think it's any more pure than pop art or anything else. It doesn't have anything to do with purity. - Donald Judd Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself. - Roy Lichtenstein How can U say one style is better than another. You ought to be able to be an Abstract Expressionist next week, or a Pop artist, or a realist, without feeling youve given...

There was certainly less profanity in the Godfather than in the Sopranos. There was a kind of respect. It's not that I totally agreed with it, but it was a great piece of art. - Danny Aiello I would like the people that buy my clothes to understand that for me it's one small piece of art. - Roberto Cavalli I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room. - Madonna Ciccone I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subjectively. - Paula Cole When taxidermy is done well it's an amazing piece of art. - Amanda Seyfried The first piece of art that I ever bought-when I could afford it-was a Warhol sketch from the period when he was just getting out of doing commercial work and more into art. It's a sketch of a young guy's face. I guess the gallery that I bought it from thought I would like it because the young guy kind of looked like James Dean. - James Franco I am a walking piece of art every ...

I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship. - Anthony Anderson I was at college doing performing arts, and just spending all my time mucking about, and the lecturers thought I would be pretty good at stand-up, so I gave it a whirl. - Allan Carr I'm into sincerity in music and sincerity in art. If it doesn't feel true, I don't want to do it. Things that are too dramatic scare me. I think that's why I don't always fit into the world of performing arts. - Zooey Deschanel I went to the Performing Arts School and studied classical ballet. That attitude is something that's put into your head. You are never thin enough. - Carmen Electra I went to a Canadian college for performing arts and then I auditioned for Canadian Idol. That honestly was my golden ticket. - Carly Rae Jepsen Dancers, like all performing artists, like nothing better than to be challenged. - Karen Kain For one year I did go to Performing Art...

Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words. - Laurie Anderson I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second. - Erykah Badu Everything I have is dirty, but I'm sure I can figure something. Maybe I can make a dress out of a garbage bag. Lady Gaga wore that meat dress to the VMA's, so I should be able to dress in a garbage bag. I'll get black ones, to symbolize my current state of mind. Like performance art of something. - Lauren Barnholdt All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art. - Jack Bowman A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before. - Jack Bowman Performance art can be produced in a coffee house setting. - Jack Bowman We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled inf...

Certainly, I want to capture the reader's attention from the beginning and hold it until the end: that is half the purpose of my art. The other half must be to tell my story in the most honest way that I can. - Edward Abbey I'm not sure that I care for the idea of strangers examining my daily habits and folkways, studying my language, inspecting my costume, questioning me about my religion, classifying my artifacts, investigating my sexual rites and evaluating my chances for cultural survival. So I lived alone. - Edward Abbey 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 I'll say it. - John Lennon This art of acting is a process I love very much. It's an unbelievably fulfilling experience for me and I look forward to building upon my art in the years to come. - Greg Akcelrod My art is that of the 35mm kind; my poetry is of the lead and ink kind; my happiness is of ...

We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum of Modern Art, where we had hoped to do the readings. - David Amram It's like this article I read the other day about the decline of the firefly population. One of the reasons they're disappearing is because of modern artificial lighting. Fireflies can't find the signals of their mates, because they're so distracted by porch lights, streetlamps, illuminated sign letters...You think you've found the perfect mate and you head for him, blinking as fast as you can, and then you find out he's a Bic lighter. - Lisa Kleypas The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little. - Banksy To say the word...

Ohmygod," Jade whispered, panicked. She grabbed my arm and yanked, almost knocking me off balance. "Something moved in those bushes." I shoved her off, pointed to the ground, and smiled. From under the bush, long ears attached to a tiny brown speckles head peeked out. "Yeah. That bunny is a Denazen suit in disguise. Where do you suppose he's hiding his gun? Or maybe he doesn't need one. Maybe he's a martial arts master trained in the art of kickassery. - Jus Accardo I'm Charlotte Davidson: private investigator, police consultant, all -around badass. Or I could've been a badass, had I stuck with those lessons in mixed martial arts. I was only in that class to learn how to kill people with paper. - Darynda Jones Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can using only their hands and feet make some of the worst movies in the history of the world. - Dave Barry But my middle daughter, Kate, is very ...