Country music, the music of the white rural working class, has often been mocked by elitists whose understanding of power and art was shaped at expensive private schools. – Will Shetterly
People shouldn’t trust artists and they shouldn’t trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it. – Tony Kushner
I don’t want to get pretentious, but there’s an art to doing sitcoms; you have to make it work in that format. – Sean Maguire
Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary. – Zoe Kravitz
In Japan, I am famous in certain special circles – mainly as someone who is trying to break down and enlighten the conventions of Japanese art. – Takashi Murakami
I’m interested in Jackson Pollock’s kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it’s nothing, and yet it’s incredible. – Taylor Swift
Theatre critics have no special access to the truth. And there should be no objective truth to art. – Tim Crouch
You know, I just don’t believe that art is supposed to make sense. I really don’t think it’s supposed to be analyzed to death. It’s left to the listener or looker to get what they can get from it. – Shelby Lynne
Riding a race bike is an art – a thing that you do because you feel something inside. – Valentino Rossi
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art. – Thomas Hardy
Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I’m going to paint until I paint it, so it’s almost like automatic writing. A writer, on the other hand, can’t help but know what he’s going to write, because the activity demands a degree of premeditation. – William S. Burroughs
I appreciate art in any form. So it applies to clothes as well. On stage, I think people prefer me in Indian outfits… in fact, it goes with the kind of songs I sing as well. Indianness in the form of a sari, or a chaniya choli or jeans with something interesting, matches my style of singing. – Shreya Ghoshal
One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom. – Thom Yorke
But if I had to choose a single destination where I’d be held captive for the rest of my time in New York, I’d choose the Metropolitan Museum of Art. – Tim Gunn
School is such an encouraging and safe environment. It’s filled with idealism and just really working on your craft. When you enter the business world – where art meets commerce – it can become quite depressing. – Troy Garity
Black-and-white photography, which I was doing in the very early days, was essentially called art photography and usually consisted of landscapes by people like Ansel Adams and Edward Weston. But photographs by people like Adams didn’t interest me. – William Eggleston
I didn’t want to save art – I respected the older artists too much to think art needed saving. But I knew it was finished, even though, at that time, I didn’t know what I would do. – Sol LeWitt
I was always under the impression that acting is an innate gift. One of the first things I heard them say at Koothu-P-Pattarai was that actors should realise the art of acting through their training. – Vijay Sethupathi
I feel the art world in New York has a stronger following than Britain. If you go to a New York art district on a Saturday morning, it will be so busy with families and openings – art is much more ingrained in the culture. – Sam Taylor-Wood
So I am totally aware that when I defend the autonomy of art I’m going counter to my own development. It’s more an instinctive reaction, meant to protect the private aspect of the work, the part I am most interested in and which nowadays is at risk in our culture. – Thom Mayne
Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted. – William Hazlitt
The art is what can’t be put on a timeline. You can’t say, ‘Well, I’m going to make a record in May because that’s when the producer has a window.’ So just recording and getting things out is paramount for me. – Sturgill Simpson
I wrote ‘The Painted Word,’ about modern art, and was denounced as reactionary. In fact, it is just a history, although a rather loaded one. – Tom Wolfe
In many respects, theater is still grappling with problems of reality and representation that the visual art movement realized were unimportant many years ago. – Tim Crouch
