Art Is Quotes
I want to be the person whose art is accessible, who someone could look at and say "That's doesn't look so hard, I could do that."
What really drives me mad about art is that, in America, the only thing you can do is to take it apart.
I believe that all true art is classic, but the dictates of the mind rarely permit of its being recognized as such when it first appears.
So that’s what art is, for the artist,” said Crake. “An empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid.
Art is the free expression of the artist and they tried to stop us from expressing ourselves, our art.
Immaterial art is the strongest because there's no obstacle; there's just energy, and I believe in energy.
Art is how a culture records its life, how it poses questions for the next generation and how it will be remembered.
If people were able to be convinced that art is precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and social consequences of the next technology, would they all become artists?
If a work of art is to explore new environments, it is not to be regarded as a blueprint but rather as a form of action-painting.
Duchamp's urinal was art once he put it in a gallery. In fact, one working definition of art is anything that is in a gallery.
There's a kind of perverseness or betrayal in that idea that art is somehow superior to life. Or that it's more important to write well than it is to take out the garbage.
Art is beyond the enmity! That's why you can always love the art of your enemy, even though you hate him!
You'll see more violence in any television crime series than you will in my films Art is there to have a stimulating effect, if it earns its name. You have to be honest, that's the only thing.
A wellborn mind that is practiced in dealing with people makes itself thoroughly agreeable by itself. Art is nothing else but thelist and record of the productions of such minds.
Art is so subjective--it means something different to every person. The important thing for it to do is to touch on the senses and emotions.
Art is many things but, directly or indirectly, it always describes the human condition.
Madame Schmid belonged to that large class of persons who believe that a man who engages in any form of art is necessarily a loafer.
Art is love creating the new world and justice is love rolling up its sleeves to heal the old one.
Picasso said art is a lie that tells the truth. What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it?
My thesis in terms of all my art is finding the beauty in the ugly truth. Just find the beauty in realism and what's there.
it's not my job to preach a sermon. Art is anyhow a homily. My job is to speak in living images, not in arguments. I must exhibit life full-face, not discuss life.
Art is fantastic, but it's also that you come to Paris, you call me, I come to New York, I come to visit you, we hang out together, and that's art.
All art is probably erotic in its ultimate character, but painting more than anything else is a purely nervous erotic activity.
Art first of all is optical. That's where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
Art used to be painting, sculpture, music, etc, but now, all technology has become art. Of course, this form of art is still very primitive, but it is slowly replacing reality.
The cinema was certainly an art, but television can't be, because it is the museum of accidents. In other words, its art is to be the site where all accidents happen. But that's its only art.
Art has become more than painting, sculpture or music: art is more than Van Gogh painting a landscape or Wagner composing an opera. The whole of reality itself has become the object of art.
Often much of my work is very optimistic, or solution-based. I have always believed that art is a tool for transformation, and something that should give people some kind of agency.