Art Quotes

I knew I was different. I thought that I might be gay or something because I couldn’t identify with any of the guys at all. None of them liked art or music. They just wanted to fight and get laid. It was many years ago but it gave me this real hatred for the average American macho male.

Timing is an art.

Riding a race bike is an art – a thing that you do because you feel something inside.

Art imitates life and, sometimes, life imitates art. It’s a weird combination of elements.

To me, music is art and fashion is art, but fame? Fame isn’t art, but the person you become when you’re famous – your alter ego – that’s art.

Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.

As technology advances at an alarming pace, the place of drawing remains as valid as ever in the creation of art and architecture.