Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
— Paul Gauguin
Has the painter not always gone to an art school, or at least to an established master, for instruction? And the composer, the sculptor, the architect? Then why not the writer? Good poets, like good hybrid corn, are both born and made.
— Paul Engle
I don't get many hecklers now but answering them is an art form in itself.
— Paul Daniels
My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.
— Paul Cezanne
You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people - more just, more moral, more sensitive, more understanding. Perhaps that is true - in certain rare, isolated cases.
— Paul Auster
I think I realized it was an art form at the beginning, but it took me a really long time before I was able to view what I was performing myself as an art form.
— Patton Oswalt
The thing is that as you grow through life, the pursuit of art and the pursuit of new ideas, all these things keeps your mind elastic.
— Patti Smith
In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.
When you're a little kid, you just like music that makes you happy and is fun. As you get older, you reach college or your 20s and you decide that music should be challenging and all art should be smart. So you start to think it makes you like high art more to put down things you consider low art. I don't even think things are low art.
— Patrick Stump
Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.
— Patrick Marber
I am increasingly unimpressed by works of art that require a college degree to understand. I think that art should be for everyone. And people should be moved by it.
— Patrick deWitt
From the beginning of church history, music, writing, literature, and the greatest works of art all came from the church. To change the culture and make it a force for good, you have to be in it and be a part of it.
— Patricia Heaton
I'm always trying to find 'connections' between things. That art is the juxtaposition of a lot of things that seem unrelated but add up to something recognizable.
— Pat Metheny
I believe all of us should have the freedom to have our personal take on how art affects us.
— Parvathy
In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.
Critics have a job to do. I understand that. It's not just to criticize. They're trying to interpret art for the public.
— Paul Emsley
It is a peculiar art form, but I think it's a necessary art form - and I do believe it's a noble art form.
— Paul Conrad
Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.
When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
Seattle has a long tradition of celebrating local and non-local art - from the Burke and Seattle Art Museums to the Asian Art Museum.
— Paul Allen
90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive on.
Hopefully if you create something fine, people will relate to it, so you're communicating with people, and you're not in a void. On the other hand, because you're always creating and transforming, art always separates you - always.
Why do we make records? Because we want to say something. Why are you in art? Because you want to say something. The second you don't have anything to say, you stop making art - you might start making product. And I'm interested in being an artist.
There is no right or wrong way of giving. People in Los Angeles have made major contributions in different ways to the city: Eli Broad to art. David Geffen to hospitals. I'm not judgmental.
— Patrick Soon-Shiong
In the dear dead days beyond recall, when I was in my prime as a film critic, the industry was booming. Hollywood, to give them their due, always called it the industry, through quite a few imagined it as an art form and went through several hours regularly at tiresome films in the sacred cause of art.
— Patrick Kavanagh
Dior Couture is like art - they are the art pieces of a fashion house. Each piece is unique and made by hand.
— Patrick Demarchelier
I love small weird art movies, and I love free mass entertainment.
— Patricia Arquette
The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.
— Pat Conroy
Cinema is very important to me. I derive a lot of strength from this art form, and I believe that it is very impactful socio-politically.
There's no objective reason anyone can point to that proves a horror story is innately inferior or that it's doomed to fail as a work of art because of it being horror. Anyone saying otherwise is being intellectually dishonest.
— Paul G. Tremblay
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
Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.
I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
With an apple I will astonish Paris.
Film used to have to be niche and find its audience in a little art house cinema, and TV had to work for everybody. And now it's kind of flipped where there's so many platforms that TV can be incredibly niche.
— Paul Bettany
Art fairs bring attention to up and coming artists and some amazing new works. They are a way to connect everyone with what's happening at the cutting edge of art, both new and historic.
I come from a real working class background, and I didn't know anyone sophisticated - except I saw Edie Sedgewick once at the Art Museum in Philly. She had these black leotards and little black pumps and this big ermine cape and all these white dogs and black sunglasses and black eyes. She was classy!
Why do people want to know exactly who I am? Am I a poet? Am I this or that? I've always made people wary. First they called me a rock poet. Then I was a poet that dabbled in rock. Then I was a rock person who dabbled in art.
When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.
As authors, most - most authors, our art is portraying the human condition. Trying to show you what it's like to be somebody else, trying to make you feel for somebody else. That means you have to have a high degree of empathy.
— Patrick Rothfuss
Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted.
— Patrick Duffy
My family always encouraged my drawing ability. Kids in school who teased me about my reading would get out of their seats and stand behind my desk as I worked and go, 'Wow, you can really draw.' Later, I earned a degree in Fine Art and got a Ph.D. in Art History.
— Patricia Polacco
There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.
— Pat Oliphant
My father's violence is the central fact of my art and my life.
