• When you're new to recording and you get signed to a label, people decide what you're going to be, but you're so excited to be doing it, period. Then you realize, 'Man, I don't know if this is what I really want.' Now I'm getting to do my own material and let people know that there's an artist behind the singer.
  Christina Aguilera Quotes
• I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.
  Jean Michel Basquiat Quotes
• I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
  Jean Michel Basquiat Quotes
• What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity, devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter, an art that could be for every mental worker, for the businessman as well as the man of letters, for example, a soothing, calming influence on the mind, something like a good armchair that provides relaxation from fatigue.
  Henri Matisse Quotes
• Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don’t start measuring her limbs.
  Pablo Picasso Quotes
• The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
  Pablo Picasso Quotes
• Everyone wants to understand art. Why don’t we try to understand the song of a bird? Why do we love the night, the flowers, everything around us, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting, people think they have to understand.
  Pablo Picasso Quotes
• The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.
  Jackson Pollock Quotes
• I love the English language just like I love all American things. But I confesse that I don't feel confident using complex sentences or big words, hence my famous minimally expressive style - all the "gees" and laconic answers to interviewers. Most of all, I have developed listening as an art form.
  Andy Warhol Quotes
• When I started out, art was doing down the drain. The people who used to magazine illustrations and the covers were being replaced by photographers. And when they started using photographers, I started to show my work with galleries. Everybody also was doing window decoration. That led into more galleries. I had some paintings in a window, then in a gallery.
  Andy Warhol Quotes
• The longing for beauty is especially strong in me. I require also in my art aesthetics and beauty. And I express these in my own way.
  Andy Warhol Quotes
• Being good in business is the best kind of art.
  Andy Warhol Quotes
• Well, I think the people who buy art now are these younger kids who have a lot of money.
  Andy Warhol Quotes
• Art is the thrilling spark that beats death – that's all.
  Brett Whiteley Quotes
• The fine art of painting, which is the bastard of alchemy, always has been always will be, a game. The rules of the game are quite simple: in a given arena, on as many psychic fronts as the talent allows, one must visually describe, the centre of the meaning of existense.
  Brett Whiteley Quotes
• Never trust an art dealer who'll sit in a room for more than ten minutes with a crooked picture.
  Brett Whiteley Quotes
• Art should astonish, transmute, transfix. One must work at the tissue between truth and paranoia.
  Brett Whiteley Quotes