I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.
Banksy
There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know... →
I want my art to make people look at the world in a new way. I mean, what's the point of the art of writing if it doesn't take you into the... →
John Banville
All a work of art can do is present the surface. I can't know the insides of people. I know very little about the inside of myself.
All art at a certain level is entertainment. We go to a tragedy by Sophocles to be entertained.
Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to... →
Amiri Baraka
He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is obtained. If we ought to do so in things... →
Robert Barclay
Now, there are so many movies, so many festivals, and so many awards going on, each judged with each other, like your work is worse than others and... →
Javier Bardem
But don't call me an actor. I'm just a worker. I am an entertainer. Don't say that what I am doing is art.
My life is in the art that I make, and I'm very happy with it.
Clive Barker