Duke Ellington Art Quotations

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.

The Europeans who went to Africa came back with “modern' art. What is more African than a Picasso?

There is no art when one does something without intention.

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don't want it.

There is no art without intention.

in recognition of his musical genius, which evoked aesthetically the principles of democracy through the medium of jazz and thus made an indelible contribution to art and culture.