Top 97 Quotes About Art Pieces

#1. I can't stand these damn shows on museum walls with neat little frames, where you look at the images as if they were pieces of art. I want them to be pieces of life!

W. Eugene Smith

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#2. Hong Kong is a nice playground for my street pieces as the architecture is very different from my home city. It's also a great opportunity to take place in a dynamic city of the global art scene.

Invader

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#3. People despite their struggles, flaws and faults are honestly the most beautiful creatures. We are wonderfully-broken pieces of art.

Alexander Pyles

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#4. Customer research produces bland products. We're producing a piece of art.

Michael Arrington

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#5. The way I look is part of it. It sounds affected but I do see myself as a piece of living art.

Klaus Nomi

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#6. Acting for me is not a business, it's about trying to make pieces of art that I believe that I feel proud of. And it's the journey of that.

Nicole Kidman

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#7. Storytelling is the art of unfolding knowledge in a way that makes each piece contribute to a larger truth.

Philip Gerard

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#8. Television as we have it isn't an art form - it's a piece of furniture that is good for a few things.

Pauline Kael

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#9. You can't understand how strange it was to be a sculptor who exhibited photographs. (On exhibitions of his earthworks and land art pieces.)

Dennis Oppenheim

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#10. You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt ... or in front of a piece of graphic design.

Stefan Sagmeister

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#11. Sometimes the art pieces I gravitate toward speak to me in terms of narrative, at other times they speak to me in terms of mood.

Claudia Rankine

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#12. A movie is just like a work of art or a book or a piece of music. The intent of its maker is one thing, but its interpretation by an audience is something else. I don't stop at what the filmmaker wanted to do.

Wesley Morris

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#13. What is extraordinary about contemporary art is the energy - it has our energy. New energy. Pieces hundreds of years old are beautiful from an aesthetic point of view, but without our modern energy.

Victor Pinchuk

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#14. Everything comes from a weird place that I don't understand. I make a piece of art just to prove that I exist in my own way. And I can't make something nice. I have to make something that makes me uncomfortable.

Josh Smith

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#15. Artistic temperament is like a king with vigor and unlimited opportunity. You shake the structure to pieces by playing with it.

F Scott Fitzgerald

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#16. Completing a piece of art and using all of the elements of making a film, was satisfying, for sure.

Robert Stromberg

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#17. They stood, a family, and walked out of the mall, into the sunlight, seeking to rearrange the shape of their surroundings, to blow something up and watch all the tiny pieces resettle around them like falling snow.

Kevin Wilson

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#18. When I first started making photo pieces it wasn't with the idea of a commitment to the medium. I didn't think I would have to become a photographer to make my photographs. I recall that anything could be used as material for art in that era. Photography was just one more thing.

William Wegman

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#19. I was particularly proud of my performance as the Joker. I considered it a piece of pop art.

Jack Nicholson

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#20. Like most sensible people, you probably lost interest in modern art about the time that Julian Schnabel was painting broken pieces of the crockery that his wife had thrown at him for painting broken pieces of crockery instead of painting the bathroom and hall.

P. J. O'Rourke

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#21. I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'

Lady Gaga

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#22. It's funny how something so normal and mundane that you see every day-your body-can be controversial. The shock value is intense. It's like carrying an art piece around with you all the time.

Beth Ditto

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#23. My favorite books, art pieces, films, and music, always have something jarring about them.

Pink

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#24. Tiger Woods is like a piece of fine art that belongs in the Louvre, and so, too, is Scott Medlock's painting of Tiger Woods and Sergio Garcia ... a true masterpiece!

Al Michaels

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#25. A writer needs certain conditions in which to work and create art. She needs a piece of time; a peace of mind; a quiet place; and a private life.

Margaret Walker

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#26. I have a three-piece suit. I'm an art collector. I have a funny accent. So I'm probably the killer.

Mads Mikkelsen

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#27. A popular cliche in philosophy says that science is pure analysis or reductionism, like taking the rainbow to pieces; and art is pure synthesis, putting the rainbow together. This is not so. All imagination begins by analyzing nature.

Jacob Bronowski

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#28. Science and art sometimes can touch one another, like two pieces of the jigsaw puzzle which is our human life, and that contact may be made across the boderline between the two respective domains.

M.C. Escher

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#29. An alive piece of art may be more alive than much of its audience, and with this odd truth artists must make peace.

Eric Maisel

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#30. If sanity ever returns to our society and we stop taking pretentious elites seriously, one of the signs will be that the public will force the removal of those ugly pieces of twisted metal that are called 'art' in front of government buildings.

Thomas Sowell

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#31. I am very interested in architecture. I've been asked if I'd ever direct, but me, I'd rather build. It's very similar to directing, because you get to walk among this piece of art, to live in it, be surrounded by it, which is just thrilling.

Brad Pitt

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#32. The 1,000 Buddha, to me, is almost like a contemporary art piece.

Hiroshi Sugimoto

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#33. Advertising and art are getting all mixed up. I think some of the most exciting pieces of TV are the commercials.

The Edge

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#34. Fortunately I don't want to be part of the mainstream. When I see a Kiki Smith work, for example, she's very contemporary, and I feel a lot of emotion in each of her pieces; I think she understands our time, and she makes really interesting art because of that.

Luis Gonzalez

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#35. I think there's escapist moviemaking, and we want to be captivated and taken away. If it's done right, you can craft an incredible film. There have been superhero films that I think are brilliant pieces of art.

Ryan Reynolds

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#36. When art calls, you have to follow it. It doesn't happen often, so take the opportunity when it strikes. In all reality, what I do is art. I do create fabulous pieces of decorative baked goods.

A.M. Willard

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#37. I got involved in lots of different areas round about 2007, 2008. Just working with lots of different people and stretching myself in different ways. I was working on art projects and working with other writers, just doing bits and pieces, trying to keep busy.

Stevie Jackson

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#38. Bicycles are pieces of art. You get that combination of kinetic engineering, but then, besides the welds, the paint jobs, the kind of the sculpture of it all is quite beautiful. Bikes have such great lines, and all different styles.

Robin Williams

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#39. There's magic and metaphors in music superior to any other art form. An exquisite alchemy is involved in mixing pieces of your self and soul into the precisely perfect blend of harmonies, melodies, and lyrics that strike a chord.

A.J. Compton

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#40. I got a book token for Christmas and exchanged it for a book called A History of Art, and that book (which I still have-battered and falling to pieces) became more precious to me than any Bible.

Philip Pullman

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#41. They are giving us pieces of a real life instead of the whole thing. They have perfected the art of giving us just enought freedom; just enough that when we are ready to snap, a little bone is offered and we roll over, belly up, comfortable and placated like a dog ... - Cassia

Ally Condie

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#42. A peaceful feeling: A happy harmony or symphony of all of our character pieces working in powerful unison" from Cinderella In Focus

H. L. Balcomb

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#43. Boulez, who is everything I don't want art to be ... Boulez, who once said in an essay that he is not interested in how a piece sounds, only how it is made.

Morton Feldman

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#44. The most beautiful pieces of art come from the ugliest situations.

Andy Mineo

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#45. I'm always changing things around. I have to change it all the time. I'm rearranging furniture and taking down paintings and putting up new ones, and buying new pieces of art.

Evangeline Lilly

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#46. Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces.

Anthony Shadid

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#47. Dior Couture is like art - they are the art pieces of a fashion house. Each piece is unique and made by hand.

Patrick Demarchelier

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#48. I wanted to jeopardize my own image. With my image I had already produced art pieces such as videos of photographs.

Orlan

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#49. Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

Gloria Naylor

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#50. I was trying to release emotions, exercise emotions, and then I entered the art world. Even after grad school, some of [the earlier works] were still lingering in my head. I realized there were some pieces where I felt that I had to respond to the criticism.

Kalup Linzy

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#51. We grew tired together, creating our own kind of art. We became the masterpieces of the loneliest souls. The colors in both of our eyes bled out, knowing that sometimes the most beautiful pieces of art were created from the darkest of souls.

Brittainy C. Cherry

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#52. I wanted to make pictures that felt natural, that felt like seeing, that didn't feel like taking something in the world and making a piece of art out of it.

Stephen Shore

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#53. You know what's it's changed is my appreciate for the art form of making cinema. I don't want to act as much as I want to tell stories. I want to be a part of the whole collective and pull all of the pieces together. That's what I love about directing.

Jason Momoa

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#54. Ideally, each piece of art's its own unique object, and its evaluation's always present-tense.

David Foster Wallace

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#55. He taught us the art of unqualified love. How to give it, how to accept it. Where there is that, most other pieces fall into place.

John Grogan

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#56. God sends us pieces of art so that we may see ourselves in them

Vincent Van Gogh

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#57. I'm in this whole flow of doing certain art pieces without commerce.

Jada Pinkett Smith

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#58. Doing my art came out of something very solitary and something that I had no intention of showing anybody, and yet once people saw pieces in my house, it became really clear that there was a great demand for my art.

Paul Stanley

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#59. A piece of art is never a finished work. It answers a question which has been asked, and asks a new question.

Robert Engman

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#60. As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien.

Gavin Bryars

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#61. I started resenting how much art robs from life. I'd go to a party and I couldn't enjoy myself, even sexually. All I could think was how I was going to reinvent the experience into a piece of art.

Patti Smith

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#62. To me the most important thing in a piece of art is the thought. Technique is totally secondary.

Robert Bateman

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#63. The galleries are simply corporations in the art world - "Here's a million dollars for this latest piece of crap" - but I'm not about to go along with the gallery system.

Betty Dodson

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#64. I became comfortable with what I knew would be the process of trying to pick up the pieces of brain that were in the rubble and tried to make some mosaic out of the pieces and that that would be the trajectory.

Art Spiegelman

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#65. The best of American television is thought-provoking, original, brilliant, exciting - from 'The Sopranos' on, whether it's 'The Wire' or 'Breaking Bad' or 'House of Cards,' they're fantastic pieces of art.

Martin Freeman

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#66. Most people don't realize the many steps that a pop-up goes through. There are a variety of "Dummies" (the sketch phase of the book). Then finally the pencil "dummy", then the finished art which is like painting pieces of a jig saw puzzle.

Tomie DePaola

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#67. The final, unfinished fugue from The Art of Fugue is the greatest piece of music ever composed.

Glenn Gould

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#68. A good piece of art should make a revolution inside you.

Shohreh Aghdashloo

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#69. I like to mix pieces in my art direction from the '60s or the '40s and the '90s and present-day stuff. To me, that feels very real. When I go into people's houses, it's not all today.

Aaron Ruell

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#70. My art collection is dominated by tribal art from Nigeria where I taught school, from New Guinea where we've travelled, and by Canadian Haida pieces. My own art is either on exhibition or owned by other people!

Robert Bateman

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#71. I did 14 movies in six years, I had a cartoon TV show, and I don't want to do that again. I just want to make unique pieces of art. That's why I quit everything when I was 14 and sat around for eight years before I did another movie.

Macaulay Culkin

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#72. Honestly, I don't believe in menswear. I focus on what pieces are most timeless, transcendent, match my lifestyle, remain remarkable, and command intriguing attention across the room at an art gallery.

Janelle Monae

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#73. I consider drawings finished works of art, first of all. However, the ideas can be something that can be developed into something larger. I don't make so many drawings anymore since I'm working with language. I used to make more when I worked with sculptural things, especially the wire pieces.

Robert Barry

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#74. A good piece of art raises questions.

Rebecca Hall

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#75. Our senses and emotions are the great source of inspiration for creating compelling and interesting art pieces (books included). Each art piece, be it a book, a song, a painting, a photograph or a product should touch our senses and evoke emotions. Emotionless art lacks purpose and interest.

Serafima

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#76. In art, everything is particular. The more particular and the more intimate you get, the more you can give in the piece.

Doris Salcedo

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#77. I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.

Aby Rosen

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#78. Olivia was so beautifully broken. The hairline cracks in her personality were more pieces of art than flaws. I loved flawed art.

Tarryn Fisher

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#79. An art critic is someone who appreciates art, except for any particular piece of art.

Robert Breault

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#80. The secret of a successful art career is to make more art that folks think they need than pieces they just want. When a piece of art emotionally connects with a person the work becomes a need. You are then on your way to becoming successful.

Jack White

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#81. Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces, and men find themselves suddenly brought back to the wants and resources of their original natures.

Francis Parkman

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#82. Before I was a cosplayer, I was a fan artist. I would draw my favorite characters and sell the pieces at art auctions. But once I discovered cosplay, it was like, 'I don't have to draw my favorite characters, I can become my favorite characters.'

Yaya Han

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#83. People think, "Wow, people in America have so much money, they're sending hundreds of pencils to this guy." I don't think those people realize that most people who are buying these pencils are buying them as art objects or conversation pieces.

David Rees

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#84. All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.

Jack Bowman

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#85. Take the beautifully wild pieces of your life and shape them into the manicured works of art you want your life to become. That is your lifescape

Jaha Knight

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#86. We're not choosing the art, the art is choosing us. The pieces are choosing the walls where they hang.

Massimo Bottura

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#87. If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces.
[Blueprint for a Breakthrough (2013)]

Shane Koyczan

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#88. The first hole made through a piece of stone is a revelation.

Henry Moore

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#89. I like Thelonious Monk, he's so gnarled, he's like a piece of machinery that's pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.

Tom Waits

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#90. I'm really happy with all the art that was inspired by religion, and I think I'd be tickled to little tiny pieces if art in the future was inspired by other things.

Penn Jillette

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#91. Why shouldn't we, so generally addicted to the gigantic, at last have some small works of art, some short poems, short pieces of music [ ... ], some intimate, low-voiced, and delicate things in our mostly huge and roaring, glaring world?

Elizabeth Bishop

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#92. There are certain types of slightly hysterical human characters who, rather than creating, walk around with a sense of their own potential - it's as if they themselves were art objects. They feel as if their lives are written narratives, or pieces of music.

Rachel Cusk

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#93. Craft can get you through ninety percent of a piece, but it's art that carries you at the end.

Stephen Graham Jones

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#94. I'm saving up to buy art. Nothing famous, but every time I'm in a new city I wander into galleries and dream about buying great pieces one day.

Nicola Formichetti

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#95. I've worked really hard. I've made three pieces of seminal art in my life. If I died tomorrow, I'd be remembered for making them. There are a lot of artists who, no matter how hard they work in their lives, will never make anything seminal.

Tracey Emin

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#96. For me, the canvas is an abstract interpretation of a wall. It's a piece of art with its own history, one that alludes to the passage of time and to the theater of life.

Jose Parla

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#97. There are times when the art world seems like a religious empire. There are great cathedral galleries and pilgrimage sites where treasured art pieces are displayed like holy relics, and this can certainly be a great pleasure on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

Michael Leunig

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