The Best Art Quotes

#1. Evergreen had opened up a whole new world to me. There I met many internationally celebrated people: there I was surrounded by the best art and music, as well as conversation. I knew I could never return to the life I had led before.

Billy Baldwin

#2. If art is singular expression, then by nature, the best art is controversial. But when art stirs debate for reasons besides its artistic integrity, that's when things get bent.

John Ridley

#3. Perhaps the measure of the best art is that it does not excite envy.

Norman Mailer

#4. I like playing with that space between laughter and discomfort where your discomfort can also make you laugh, and you're confused about the mixed feelings. That's challenging, and I think that's what makes for some of the best art.

Hari Kondabolu

#5. If I'm doing my job correctly, I'm presenting a scenario for you as the reader to engage with on your own. I mean that's what the best art is supposed to do.

T.C. Boyle

#6. Making children happy is the best art.

Marty Rubin

#7. Don't be afraid to put anything on paper because the best art has some element of danger to it and if you hold back then people will kind of be able to tell that you're trying to be something you're not.

Max Bemis

#8. The best art looks and sounds prophetic; a genius borrows from tomorrow what he uses today.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#9. I think I love jokes! The best jokes are equal to the best art, in my mind, and as rare.

Travis Nichols

#10. New Yorkers think they have everything, all the best art and music. But really L.A. is a better place.

Wolfgang Puck

#11. Land really is the best art.

Andy Warhol

#12. The best art on a football field usually happens during kickoff returns.

Kevin Sampsell

#13. The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.

Toni Morrison

#14. Some of the best art occurs when people are oppressed. That's just what we do as a species when something shakes us up.

Pharrell Williams

#15. My child has to be an artist,
because conceiving her will be the best art
my body has ever accommodated.

Nomthandazo Tsembeni

#16. The best art always comes unbidden.

Christopher Pike

#17. Making money is art. And working is art. And good business is the best art.

Andy Warhol

#18. Disney is our contemporary landscape. The best art will reflect that and challenge you. Disney comforts you, whereas the best art shakes up your comfort level and perception.

Jeffrey Deitch

#19. The child will leave the nest. The best paint job will crack. The best play will become boring. The best work will grow tedious. The best art will lose meaning. The greatest creation will decay. Behind all this, lies my true self.

Vironika Tugaleva

#20. I had a growing feeling that most of the best art of the world in painting and sculpture had been done, and that this newest form [photography] was more related to the progress and tempo of modern science of the eye.

Paul Outerbridge

#21. My theory is that nine times out of ten, if there's a depression, more a social depression than anything, it brings out the best art in black people. The best example is, Reagan and Bush gave us the best years of hiphop.

Questlove

#22. Those who try to combat the production of shoddy pictures are enemies of the best art today ... It always feels tragic to see people labouring to saw off the branch they are sitting on.

Asger Jorn

#23. Good business is the best art of all.

Andy Warhol

#24. A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.

Wendy Carlos

#25. Everywhere I've turned somebody has wanted to sacrifice me for my own good - only /they/ were the ones who benefited. And now we start on the old sacrificial merry-go-round. At what point do we stop?

Ralph Ellison

#26. To me, every plaque, no matter what words are inscribed on it, says the same magic informative thing: Something happened! The gum cost a dollar, but the story was free.

Sarah Vowell

#27. Don't act based on religion; always have a purpose and focus

Sunday Adelaja

#28. Songs are so all-encompassing; they're the joys and sorrows and pacing of life.

Neil Diamond

#29. Without a goal [maneuvering is] aimless. You might be a master tactician, but you'll have no sense of strategy.

Garry Kasparov

#30. As I was saying to the landlord only this morning: 'You can't have everything'.

Dorothy Parker

#31. He had a face like a nutcracker; a scrawny man of no particular age, with merry secretive eyes.

William Faulkner

#32. I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism ... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan.

Pat Boone

#33. child birthing to women is like what battles are to men.

Sarah Tucker

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Sandeep Kumar Mishra

#35. People, when they get out of a long stretch of prison, are completely mal-adapted to society. Comfort for them is when there is a threat.

Antony Starr

#36. Look at that drum of a stomach, it's like he has swallowed a country.

NoViolet Bulawayo

#37. To love those who love us and are good to us is easy. To love those who are indifferent to us is workable, but to love those who have harmed us, intentionally or not, is true growth and realization.

Patsie Smith

#38. Hey, Finnick, come on in! We figured out how to make you pretty again!

Suzanne Collins