Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don’t see any way of getting beyond those prophecies. – Harold Bloom
Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing. – Henry Moore
I just want to make art that connects with people and moves them on an emotional level. Any time I can put out music and place a story behind it and have people watch it and go, ‘Wow, I was affected by that,’ to me, feels like I’ve done my job. – Hayley Kiyoko
A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist’s world. – Hans Hofmann
As far as I have been able to understand, the Japanese seem to keep things close to the vest. Friendly but remote and polite to the point of being invisible. It is in the music, literature, film and art that the Japanese really seem to express themselves. – Henry Rollins
That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man’s spiritual vision. – Herbert Read
Art is magic… But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic. – Hans Hofmann
To keep art stimulating, it’s important to open it up to new horizons, which includes showing it in unexpected contexts. – Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Art owes its origin to Nature herself… this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it. – Giorgio Vasari
There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things. – Gustave Flaubert
Art and science are intrinsically the same except for one thing. The universe is in control of your science, whether it’s right or wrong, and the public are in control of your art – if they’re going to buy it, if you’re going to make a living that way. – Harry Kroto
Middle grade fiction, to me, is really about emergence of self. It’s about expressing the idea that the world is going to start affecting you more, and your parents’ influence is going to wane. Middle grade is when a lot of kids discover their passions – art, music, sports, what have you. – Greg van Eekhout
Well Washington DC what are you going to do. They think the capitol steps are the state of the art in comedy. You try to drag them into the 20th century let alone the 21st and they refuse to come with you. – Harry Shearer
I never, ever had it in my mind that I wanted to be in the record industry, because I still contend that the record industry is an insidious affair. It’s this terrible collision between art and commerce, and it will always be that way. – Ian MacKaye
The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history. – Harold Rosenberg
There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about. – Helen Frankenthaler
Time extracts various values from a painter’s work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is. – Henri Matisse
Unlike the expressionists, I have never been interested in renewing the world through the vehicle of art. – Georg Baselitz
Our thoughts fly therefore by themselves in this festive hour of our plant community, to the man whom we thank for the ressurection of our Nation: Adolf Hitler, the patron of German labour and German art. – Gustav Krupp
Having artist parents, they knew the importance of exposing me and my sister to all types of music and art and making art part of our every day. it was just always there. – Gretchen Parlato
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. – Gustave Flaubert