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The definition of art has to shift whenever an innovator appears. -- Thomas Hoving
The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class. -- Louis Dudek
Beauty plus pity -- that is the closest we can get to a definition of art. -- Vladimir Nabokov
The definition of art has changed almost every day since the first artist created the first work at least fifty thousand years ago... -- Thomas Hoving
Tolstoy's definition of art is the inverse of the truth; the task of art is to transform not perception into feeling, but feeling into perception. -- Raphael Soyer
With its fluctuating forms and needless decoration, fashion epitomizes the supposedly unproductive waste that inspired 20th-century technocrats to dream of central planning. It exists for no good reason. But that's practically a definition of art. -- Virginia Postrel
The state of female artists is very good. But the very definition of art has been biased in that 'art' was what men did in a European tradition and 'crafts' were what women and natives did. But it's actually all the same. -- Gloria Steinem
It's not about facts, it's about feelings. It's about remembering feelings and happiness. A definition of art is that it makes concrete our most subtle emotions. I think the highest form of art is music. It's the most abstract of all art expression. -- Agnes Martin
Sometimes magnificent visual art takes root in the humblest of soils. Advertisements painted on old barns, tattoos, fruit crate labels, hot rod embellishments - all these media and many other non-galleried forms have hosted and fostered esthetic delights that satisfy any rigorous definition of art. -- Paul Di Filippo
Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art. -- Dennis Potter
I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away their freedom to make art, would lose their mind. -- Richard Price
As most doctors will tell you, cleansing is ridiculous. You know what's been around longer than that state-of-the-art juicer? Your kidneys. And your liver. Still, the cleanse has recalibrated my definition of a splurge. -- Sloane Crosley
Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated. -- Paul Rand
For me, the game would be to assume a very intelligent reader who can extrapolate a lot from a little. And that's become my definition of art; to get that pitch just right, where I can put a hint on page three, and the reader's ears go up a bit, as opposed to dropping it all on the first page. -- George Saunders
Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybody of anything. -- Art Spiegelman
art, n. This word has no definition. -- Ambrose Bierce
Art is why I get up in the morning, but my definition ends there. -- Ani DiFranco
The definition of salesmanship is the gentle art of letting the customer have it your way. -- Ray Kroc
A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the fine qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace. -- Alfred North Whitehead
With each change of definition in art, something considered non-art or bad art by a previous generation is suddenly acceptable. -- Thomas Hoving
By my definition, most art has nothing to do with oil paint or marble. Art is what we're doing when we do our best work. -- Seth Godin
You cannot define electricity. The same can be said of art. It is a kind of inner current in a human being, or something which needs no definition. -- Marcel Duchamp
Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue. -- Benjamin Haydon

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