In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death. Use this quote
Art is not living. It is the use of living. Use this quote
I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists. Use this quote
Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation. Use this quote
Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure. Use this quote
Art is never finished, only abandoned. Use this quote
Yeah, I like to be the maker of the art. And I like and want the money. But I don't really dig being famous. Use this quote
The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature. Use this quote
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing. Use this quote
Barack Obama's life was so much simpler in 2009. Back then, he had refined the cold act of blaming others for the bad economy into an art form. Deficits? Blame Bush's tax cuts. Spending? Blame the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No business investment? Blame Wall Street. Use this quote
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person. Use this quote
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. Use this quote
I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old. Use this quote
Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art. Use this quote
I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his "divine service." Use this quote
We're all entitled to opinions about how art institutions should behave, and entitled to voicing those opinions through whatever means available to us. We're also allowed to change or modify our opinions. Use this quote
Great art picks up where nature ends. Use this quote
The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money. Use this quote
My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. Use this quote
The artist himself is actually the subject in everything after, say, 1900. Eventually, art becomes so removed from the community that you have to know about the artist before you can even look at the painting, because there is a conceptual idea going on. Use this quote