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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.
Sylvester Stallone
Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers they bloom and then they die, then exist only as memories, or pressed in magazines and books.
Jerry Saltz
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
Edgar Degas
Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?
Paul Cezanne
What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.
Michel Foucault
As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.
Edmond de Goncourt
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Groucho Marx
Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.
Ad Reinhardt
A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
Eugene Ionesco
The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.
David Herbert Lawrence
Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.
Claude Debussy
It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.
Tom Stoppard
I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
Roy Lichtenstein
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
Edmund Burke
People who don't like me talk about it as though I'm trash because I have tattoos. I find that insane because it's 2008, not the 1950s. Tattoos aren't limited to sailors. It's a form of art I find beautiful. I love it.
Megan Fox
I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!
Victor Hugo
Not everybody trusts paintings, but people believe photographs.
Ansel Adams
People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.
Mason Cooley
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso
By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.
Leo Tolstoy
