Art Quotes

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.

Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life’s artwork, and you must craft it, hone it, and display it with the care of an artist.

Artists are here to disturb the peace.

If social protest is antithetical to art, what then shall we make of Goya, Dickens, and Twain?

Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.

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

If you work at rap and look at it as an art, the money will come. But if you try to get the money, it’ll just always be shallow.

When you’re young and everything dramatic is exciting, you start to believe that hype that, in order to be an artist, you have to suffer. I’ve graduated from that school.

I definitely think that fashion is a form of art and love that people can express themselves through what they wear.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.