Art about art and backstory has taken over visual pleasure.
Marilyn Minter
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There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk aroun...
DAN RICE The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.
JULIA MORGAN A lot of art and visual crafts are based on appropriating things.
LAZARO HERNANDEZ My exposure to visual art all my life was intensive.
CHARLES GWATHMEY We wanted to live with our art. But the pleasure is not from owning the objects. The pleasure and th...
DIANA LEE The essence of all art is having pleasure giving pleasure
MIKHAIL BARYSHINIKOV I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of mome...
BARBARA KRUGER I believe the work of art should change the existing visual, intellectual and aesthetical sense and ...
GOPAKUMAR R I wanted to explore the art of pleasure in Italy, the art of devotion in India and, in Indonesia, th...
ELIZABETH GILBERT In the writers mind, even a backstory has a backstory.
TERRY A O'NEAL The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure
MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
DALE CARNEGIE I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me abo...
DAVID ROCKEFELLER I'd like this to become a full arts festival, with film, music and visual art.
GIULIO SCALINGER Work life has taken over normal life, yet it's been stripped of humor, joy and pleasure.
JULIANNE BALMAIN The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something 8-year-olds can recognize in an...
JERRY SALTZ Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Because it's visual art, a lot of it comes from childhood experience but then a lot comes from the v...
DAMIEN HIRST Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all ove...
CAMILLE PAGLIA Although she gets a particular pleasure from portrait and reverse-glass painting, Jackie has recentl...
ED LAUDANO In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests...
CHUCK CLOSE Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
AYN RAND Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
AD REINHARDT The younger Janis was a painter, a drawer. She was a very serious art student for a number of years....
LAURA JOPLIN I have to assume that everybody interprets a piece of art they're exposed to as if it's alre...
DAMIAN LOEB Art always has something of the unconscious about it.
DAISETZ TEITARO 'D.T.' SUZUKI Visual art is a foreign language I'm fluent at, but my native language is language.
JULIA GLASS All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too.
WILLIAM SAROYAN Folk art has never been much about politics; it's about action and utility.
CASS MCCOMBS In music, they're not endlessly rewriting Beethoven's 'Third Symphony;' in visual ar...
DAVID SHIELDS 'The Art of the Brick' is an exhibition I've done where I've taken some works of art...
NATHAN SAWAYA Art has never been made while thinking of art.
NIKO STUMPO Israel is a wonderful place to be an artist - a place where imagination flourishes. Israeli culture ...
RYAN KAVANAUGH It's weird, like, my life has always imitated art, and my art has always imitated life.
SEBASTIAN BACH What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.
TAHAR RAHIM What cultural revolutionaries do not seem to grasp is that, far from being a grass-roots art form th...
ELLEN WILLIS We started by talking about some of the local public-art projects that have taken place recently. Th...
DEB TYTE Art is the triumph over chaos.
JOHN CHEEVER This is a movie about life and art, and art and life combining is magic for me,
HARVEY WEINSTEIN The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restora...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restora...
CAMILLE PAGLIA Every season has its own art and the art of autumn is to bewitch the people!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN We want people to experience art and think about it. The art reflects our time, it is about our cult...
DAVID ELLIOTT Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.
PAULA ABDUL The real problem with the art world is not the money men scavenging in its wake - they've always...
WALDEMAR JANUSZCZAK The slides are the way art history is taught. It's the way artists and art historians learn about ar...
MATT DISTEL I think I've taken 41 charges this season. There's definitely an art to it.
COLIN KING He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping...
ARTHUR BALFOUR He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping...
ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR You see corruption all over Latin America, but Brazil has raised it to a new art. It's disillusionin...
BRUCE BAGLEY You see corruption all over Latin America, but Brazil has raised it to a new art, ... It's disillusi...
BRUCE BAGLEY Throughout my life I have taken detours in acting and writing, but art remains my abiding passion.
GLORIA VANDERBILT Sometimes it is better not to talk about art by using the word "art". If we just act with awareness ...
THICH NHAT HANH It's been noted that writing about the production of art is a masquerade or metaphor for writing...
SARAH HALL He has been involved in profound questions questions of religion, of life and death, of art versu...
MARK ROSENTHAL Sometimes magnificent visual art takes root in the humblest of soils. Advertisements painted on old ...
PAUL DI FILIPPO Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
JAMES JOYCE Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
PAULINE KAEL Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-c...
BARBARA JANUSZKIEWICZ We also wanted to create a community for young visual artists, such as musicians have. The pursuit o...
DALE LEWIS As artists, the pleasure is to really have your work resonate and mean something. Art takes its insp...
YARELI ARIZMENDI Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards...
BARBARA KRUGER What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that ...
DIANA GABALDON I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.
ANSELM KIEFER To truly perfect the business of art, one has to perfect the art of business.
/USER/JAMAAL+ROLLE/MY_QUOTES/1 If someone says something about your art that makes you feel bad, disregard it and joyfully make mor...
GAYLE WRAY The art department here was developed in the 1960's and has had a faculty art show since the beginni...
BILL ANDREWS The pleasure of criticizing robs us of the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effe...
CATHERINE DENEUVE Each body has its art...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS Each body has its art…
GWENDOLYN BROOKS Each body has its art
GWENDOLYN BROOKS Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around...
JOHN CHEEVER Our inspiration really comes from modern art. So we've taken silhouettes and mixed those silhouettes...
JULIE CHAIKEN If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?
AI WEIWEI Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange ...
HELEN KELLER We work to create a new wave of feminism that is more inclusive. I want others to feel equal. It'...
PETRA COLLINS Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An ...
MARCEL PROUST Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mou...
E. B. WHITE For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures ar...
GORE VIDAL To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
ROBERT SCHUMANN One day the world will look upon research
on animals as it now looks upon research on human beings.
...
LEONARDO DAVINCI Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, i...
A. ALVAREZ Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.
JOHN LECARRE Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it le...
ERICA JONG I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
HENRI MATISSE So-called art restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel...
ALEXANDER ELIOT Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Sco...
MELVIN MADDOCKS Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.
OSCAR LEVANT The fact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something, perhaps everything. ...
MARIA LENHART Rice Krispies happens to be one of my favorite junk foods, just as I regard Michener as superior amo...
CHRISTOPHER LEHMANN-HAUPT From the shore.. one looks
upward to the sanddune grass..
10,000
green brushes attempting
where the...
SAIOM SHRIVER Anyone who contributes to the defense fund
of pornographers is a mental moonbeam.
MIKE ROYKO Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.
EDWARD STEICHEN You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum - a canvas - a p...
EDWARD STEICHEN I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.
OSCAR LEVANT There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
ANSEL ADAMS An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
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MARILYN MONROE English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of in...
MARILYN BUTLER The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn'...
MARILYN MONROE A sex symbol becomes a thing.... I just hate to be a thing.
MARILYN MONROE A career is born in public, talent in privacy.
MARILYN MONROE A career is born in public -- talent in privacy.
MARILYN MONROE Is adult amusement killing our children, or is killing our children amusing adults?
MARILYN MANSON I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, "There must be thousands of girls sitting al...
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