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Art is subject to arbitrary fashion. -- Kary Mullis
Any idealism is a proper subject for art. -- Lafcadio Hearn
The fact is that even art is subject to fashion. -- Hugo Pratt
If a nonartist teaches a subject called art, it is nonart. -- Ruth Asawa
Art usually only makes the news in America when the subject is money. -- Jerry Saltz
To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings. -- Zhang Yimou
Art is a subject that is inundated with opinions. In fact, that's all it is about is opinions. -- Chick Corea
I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste. -- Jerry Saltz
Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art. -- Susan Sontag
Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance. -- Muriel Spark
The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art. -- Joyce Maynard
One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement. -- Edgar Degas
Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask. -- Robert Motherwell
Makeup ignites a psychological transformation of both the wearer and the observer. My paintings sought to locate the subject of art within the manipulation of that altered predisposition. -- Richard Phillips
We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art. -- Andy Warhol
In school, some of my favorite subjects... I mean, art was my favorite subject. I loved art! I used to go during lunch time to the art room and paint or draw or something. -- Derek Hough
There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things. -- Gustave Flaubert
There's a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it's an all-embracing discipline taking in science, art, maths, engineering, climate, nature, politics, economics. -- Norman Foster
What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue. -- Henri Matisse
In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession. -- Alberto Giacometti
Past art is subject to change. -- T. S. Eliot
The depth of your art is subject to originality; Your own authentic style. -- Unarine Ramaru
An art that heals and protects its subject is a geography of scars. -- Wendell Berry
In art as in life, form and subject, body and soul, are one. -- Edward Abbey
Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography. -- Tom Stoppard
Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art. -- John Ruskin
Art is the writer not having control, but the subject having control of the writer. -- Paula Vogel
Mine was not pop art. I maybe started with a subject, but I changed the subject. -- Claes Oldenburg
The full weight and mystery of your art rests upon your relationship to your subject matter. -- Keith Carter
Perhaps the least cheering statement ever made on the subject of art is that life imitates it. -- Frances Ann Lebowitz
Perhaps the least cheering statement ever made on the subject of art is that life imitates it. -- Frances Ann Lebowitz
The cannabis experience has greatly improved my appreciation for art, a subject which I had never much appreciated before, -- Carl Sagan
Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject. -- George Santayana
Art is always subject to change in a moment by somebody who's strong enough to shed new light on it. -- Peter Schjeldahl
I think with art you have to do a bit of transforming of the subject to make the art worth having. -- Matthew Collings
New York is full of abandoned churches. A Godless city, but full of superstitions on every subject--art, money, sex, food, health. -- Mason Cooley
The subject matter of art is life, life as it actually is; but the function of art is to make life better. -- Gertrude Stein
I chose faces and figures as my subject matter simply due to the fact that the human form is already beautiful art. -- Frank Bruno
Philosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes subject. -- Gilles Deleuze
The real artist is striving to depict his subject's character and to stress the caricature, but at least it is art which is alive. -- William Dobell
A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter... -- Henri Matisse
In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over it. -- Andre Malraux
Talks on art are almost useless. The work which goes to bring progress in one's own subject is sufficient compensation for the incomprehension of imbeciles. -- Paul Cezanne
If you're going to perform inception, you need imagination. You need the simplest version of the idea-the one that will grow naturally in the subject's mind. Subtle art. -- Christopher Nolan
To extend the depth of what has been called 'art' into photography requires... making available to the spectator the amazing transformations the subject undergoes to become the photograph. -- Michael Snow

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