top of page

"I'd like to introduce someone who has just come into my life. I've admired him for 35 years. He's someone who represents integrity, honesty, art, and on top of that stuff I'm actually sleeping with him."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Art quotes

"Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?"

"Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness."

"Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate."

"An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear."

"I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange."
Explore more quotes by Shirley MacLaine


"It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office."


"Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late. Someday change will be accepted as life itself."


"I've made so many movies playing a hooker that they don't pay me in the regular way anymore. They leave it on the dresser."


"I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves."


"The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it."


"The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends."
bottom of page