“My experience in the music industry made me very thick-skinned. Your art is something very personal and there's never a shortage of critics when it comes to art.” ArtMadeIndustryArt IsCriticsThickMusic IndustryShortage Author:Romany Malco
“In the mid- to late '60s to the mid-'70s, when I was a student, there was a major change in the thinking about what art can be and how art is made.” ThinkingArtMadeStudentsLateMajorsArt IsMajor Change Author:Bill Viola
“Art is Nature made by Man, To Man the interpreter of God.” MenArtMadeArt IsInterpreter Author:Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
“True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it.” MindArtMadeReligiousArt IsNobleContemplation Author:Michelangelo
“I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure. I think there is a contradiction in an art of total despair, because the very fact that the art is made seems to contradict despair.” ThinkingShouldArtMadeFactsSeemsPleasureDespairArt IsContradictionAlways Believe Author:David Hockney
“I'm making some of the greatest art being made now. It'll take the art world ten years to get around to it.” WorldYearsArtMadeTenArt IsRecognitionArt World Author:Jeff Koons
“I myself incline to drift, to accept a lesser situation rather than strive for a greater, and yet, I know that character in life and art is only made by an effort that is quite beyond one's ordinary everyday acceptance of things as they are.” KnowsArtMadeCharacterEffortSituationAcceptingGreaterAcceptanceOrdinaryArt IsStriveEverydayIncline Author:Lawren Harris
“A lot of good and regular art gets made because of who you talk to. No one is immune to human contact and art is not made in a vacuum.” HumansArtMadeHumanityArt IsContactVacuumsImmune Author:R. B. Kitaj
“Art is a form of asset. Hedge-fund managers who have made money fast should diversify into other areas.” ShouldArtMadeFormArt IsAreasManagersFundAssetsHedge Fund Author:Michael Steinhardt
“Now the culture is made of old things, it's a collage. Art made out of art is not art. You're supposed to make art out of life.” ArtMadeCultureArt IsOld ThingsCollages Author:Fran Lebowitz