Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.
— Yoko Ono
Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.
I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun.
I'm from the South, and there's a different understanding of how to chop. There's a syllable play. It's a delicate art. Your accent has a lot to do with it. If you're from a certain area, words don't roll of your tongue as slick.
— Yelawolf
My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.
— Yayoi Kusama
In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her.
Before I was a cosplayer, I was a fan artist. I would draw my favorite characters and sell the pieces at art auctions. But once I discovered cosplay, it was like, 'I don't have to draw my favorite characters, I can become my favorite characters.'
— Yaya Han
I sing in Arabic as a statement. It's art, and it's a challenge.
— Yasmine Hamdan
If you look at the history of art and fashion, it's always been political. It's always been pushing boundaries.
— Yara Shahidi
I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
— Yann Martel
My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.
— Yahoo Serious
I feel like Adele is a diva. Not in the bad way. She is one of the greatest voices of this industry and of her own art. What she offers is so unique that she's risen to such a status that very few artists can enjoy.
— Xavier Dolan
Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years.
— Xander Berkeley
'Stimela' is the very first video I directed. I wanted it to be an emotional visual art piece, displaying humans as free, powerful animals. We are all running from something or searching for something; our instincts have been ignored.
— Wynter Gordon
Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.
— Woody Allen
New Yorkers think they have everything, all the best art and music. But really L.A. is a better place.
— Wolfgang Puck
But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.
— Wole Soyinka
Performance art is going to be the future. Plays on Broadway are so restricted. But performance art is like haikus, just one line thing. And it's more casual but more interesting.
Art for me is like breathing.
Art is my life and my life is art.
While producing art works, illusions appear from time to time due to my mental illness. Every day is a struggle for me.
People ask about art and commercialism. I think that if someone tries to sell their work at a high price, that is the wrong way of doing it.
I have been using polka dots since I was a very young child. Only after that, it seems, have they been used throughout the rest of the art world.
Egyptians are quite incredible people. They have everything: the culture, the music, the scenes. So much of Arab music and art started there.
I don't believe that there is a separation between art and political consciousness.
Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.
— Yanni
On my show 'One on One', I interview leaders from around the world - in politics, business, art. My other show, 'Her Village', is more like 'The View'.
— Yang Lan
For me, there are so many art forms in wrestling. There's the Ring of Honor art, the New Japan art, so whatever you enjoy, there's a facet of wrestling out there for you to watch.
— Xavier Woods
I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this.
Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are.
— Wynton Marsalis
The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact.
— Wyndham Lewis
When I was growing up, all the art that touched me was lens-generated, like Gerhard Richter, or Polke, Rauschenberg, Warhol.
— Wolfgang Tillmans
Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for its own sake.
The first thing I learned in boxing is to not get hit. That's the art of boxing. Execute your opponent without getting hit. In sports school, we were putting our hands behind our backs and having to defend ourselves with our shoulders, by rolling, by moving round the ring, moving out feet.
— Wladimir Klitschko
The art world was not initially really accepting my kind of work. I was ahead of my time.
But only art and music have the power to bring peace.
We must link Azamgarh to art and culture and not with terrorism and crime.
— Yogi Adityanath
With just one polka dot, nothing can be achieved. In the universe, there is the sun, the moon, the earth, and hundreds of millions of stars. All of us live in the unfathomable mystery and infinitude of the universe. Pursuing 'philosophy of the universe' through art under such circumstances has led me to what I call 'stereotypical repetition.'
Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.
I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned.
There is something spiritual about art that connects us with ourselves and with others; it's really about coming together and creating bridges.
I didn't want to be an actress. I wasn't trying to be in film or an art gallery for me.
— Yasmine Al Masri
How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.
Some of the authorities would like to remove rhythmic gymnastics from the list of Olympic sports and turn it into art. I think this would be wrong, as rhythmic gymnastics is a true sport - we train around six hours per day and sometimes spend entire days in the gym.
— Yana Kudryavtseva
You can spend your money on art works and sit down and look at them. Or you can use your money to help people.
— Xavier Niel
The Smithsonian museums are among this country's most endearing treasures and I look forward to helping maintain and enhance their coveted works of art.
— Xavier Becerra
Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and understand it. The music can connect us to our earlier selves and to our better selves-to-come. It can remind us of where we fit on the time line of human achievement, an ultimate value of art.
Kanye is a student of art. He's an art-school-dropout type of kid that will talk about art till the cows come home.
— Wyatt Cenac
A photocopier is a camera in its own right. I was fortunate to grow up in the time and culture that I did. I was allowed to develop an awareness that the art that really moves me is actually based on an original image.
I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals; I was involved in school plays; I wrote essays, so there was no definite moment when I said, 'Now I'm a writer.' I've always been a writer.
