More matter, with less art. – William Shakespeare Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2. Queen Gertrude interrupts the long-winded Polonius to tell him to stop embroidering things and get to the point, when he begins speaking about Hamlet’s madness.
With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice. – Oprah Winfrey
‘Crazy’ is a term of art; ‘Insane’ is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble. – Hunter S. Thompson
I’m trying to expand the notion of curating. Exhibitions need not only take place in galleries, need not only involve displaying objects. Art can appear where we expect it least. – Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Music is one of the noblest callings I can think of. It’s the highest of all the art forms to me. For example, if my kid said to me, ‘I want to give it all up,’ whatever it is that they’re doing, ‘and I want to take my saxophone and go out,’ I would say, ‘May God go with you. This is a great and noble thing that you’re doing.’ – Hugh Laurie
There are so many people who want to be the next person on ‘Home and Away,’ or they just want to be on the cover of a magazine, and they don’t really understand the craft. They’re not interested in theatre, they’re not interested in the art. – Gillian Alexy
I think the art fair is very much a form of urbanism. I think something really happens to the cities when such a fair happens. The city becomes an exhibition; it’s amazing. – Hans-Ulrich Obrist
I was born in the ’60s and grew up in the ’70s – not exactly the best decade for food in British history. It was horrendous. It was a time when, as a nation, we excelled in art and music and acting and photography and fashion – all creative skills… all apart from cooking. – Heston Blumenthal
We’ve lost these qualities, these abilities to do something by hand. Some illustrators have it still, but it’s just not art. We have photography. We have cameras and computers that do it better and faster. – Gerhard Richter
There’s so much to learn about acting and performance in general… I mean, acting is a very complex art, and there are a lot more theories and methods and techniques to it than I think anybody would think. – Haley Joel Osment
We don’t know what the next generation of art is going to look like. We’re kind of making it up as we go along. Not unlike the tech industry. – Hasan M. Elahi
I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art. – Halle Berry
I’ve always wanted to make Australian art interesting. To get a different audience watching art documentaries would be great. – Hannah Gadsby
The art of pictorial creation is so complicated – it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization. – Hans Hofmann
Cleveland has a very bad reputation, but there’s a lot of stuff that’s left over from when there were very wealthy people – the Art Museum and a world class symphony that’s still world class. – Harvey Pekar
There was an exhibition in Munich in 1937, ‘Degenerate Art,’ which included work by Klee, Kandinsky, Beckmann and many others. The work was called ‘sick’ and put in the trash heap. The sentiments expressed toward contemporary art by Jesse Helms, Pat Robertson and Mayor Giuliani recall the language used by the Nazis. – Hans Haacke
Pouring espresso is an art, one that requires the barista to care about the quality of the beverage. – Howard Schultz
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony. – Horace Walpole
A lot of people are intimated by art, but it’s something to be revered beyond criticism. – Hannah Gadsby
Keeping the balance of fast-growing and smooth-growing is always important. It’s almost an art. – Guo Guangchang
Every season, I absorb everything around m:, the people I see on the street, the discos, the art, the music, and the energy of places from my travels. I mix all of this together, and then I begin to create. – Giuseppe Zanotti
Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express. – Goldwin Smith
I’d like to see the comics’ style expanded. I’d like to see artists synthesize traditional comics arts style with fine-arts styles or whatever. I like to see innovation. I don’t like it when an art form becomes stagnant. – Harvey Pekar