Art Is Quotes

I love when violent, dangerous art is done by people who are not violent and dangerous. I love that when George Romero was making 'Dawn of the Dead,' he was coaching his son's little league team.

To understand Occupy Wall Street, you have to understand artists. Art is freedom - freedom of expression - and its message has resonated through society for centuries.

Art is always subject to change in a moment by somebody who's strong enough to shed new light on it.

My problem with political art is not that it's bad art necessarily, but that it is terrible politics.

To me, thoughts are fun and art is fun. The strength of our society should not be idle entertainments but the joy of pursuing ideas.

A city's art must give the impression that art is as indispensable a thing as water, or food.

Art is always of fixed, determined solutions - not things that might as well be different.

Art is ultimately schizophrenic.

Marketing of art is, and to my mind has always been, trendy. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean there is any real long-term value. As an artist I do what I like. As a collector I collect what I like.

Art is the way people see things, and I think it's great when individuals can find in fashion something they truly believe is artistic

The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.

If art is to have a special train, the critic must keep some seats reserved on it.

The proper school to learn art is not life but art

All bad art is the result of good intentions.

Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.

If the art is concealed, it succeeds.

Art is most effective when concealed.

Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.

A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.

My art is representational by choice....if the art of painting is to survive, it must describe and express people, their lives and times. It must communicate.

Art is evidence of our most creative moment.

Art is long, and critics are the insects of a day.

Art is what is unnecessary, but necessary only to that artist.

If art is to survive it must describe and express people, their lives and times.

I don't make art with grandiose delusions. I do know there are limits to what art is capable of. That makes it all the more appealing to me. And I can do as I will whenever I choose.

Art is not a plaything, but a necessity, and its essence, form, is not a decorative adjustment, but a cup into which life can be poured and lifted to the lips and be tasted.

art is at least in part a way of collecting information about the universe.

Bad art is maintained by the neurotic, who is deadly afraid of authentic art because it inspires him to go on living, and he is terrified of life.

Art is art. Television has elevated itself, in certain ways, but it's always pushed people's consciousness.

Art is arbitrary but it sort of reveals itself to be right or wrong anyway.

Everything combines for the works of Merzbow. I don't see them as being different and separate. ...Music and art is not separate. I mix rock sounds and art together .

Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is or ought to be ruins the power to write or paint.

. . .art is a discovery of harmony, a vision of disparities reconciled, or shape beneath confusion.

The history of art is filled with people who did not live long enough to enjoy a sympathetic public, and their misery argues that criticism should try to speed justice.

Art is challenging and frustrating but I don't linger in it. I work on five paintings at a time so if I'm frustrated I put one down and begin another.

Art is an attempt to understand, yielding pleasure in the attempt whether or not we understand.

Art is a Great Goddess of infinite intrigue and illusion, and even a lifetime of worship may not find her fickle soul.

Art is a path on which we honour our world.

The thing about art is that life is in no danger of being meaningless.

It's sometimes hard to talk about politics and art. Obviously, I have my core beliefs, but I think art is best when it's troublesome and pushes against stuff.

I think that my responsibility to my art is to try to get it right or to push the boundaries of what I'm able to do in any way.

Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.

A winning wave, (deserving note.) In the tempestuous petticote, A careless shoe-string, in whose tye I see a wilde civility,-- Doe more bewitch me than when art Is too precise in every part.

The world around us is in a sea change, and I think the glory of art is that it cannot only survive change, it can lead it

The country is so wounded, bleeding, and hurt right now. The country needs to be healed-it's not going to be healed from the top, politically. How are we going to heal? Art is the healing force.

To be the agent whose touch changes nature from a wild force to a work of art is inspiration of the highest order.

All art is holy. Not that it is all long-faced and miserable; it can be wild and wooly. But if it transforms you, it is art. And it is holy.

All art is the tension, expressed between the uncontainable and its one perfect inevitable form.

A spiritual search in art is looking for meaning outside of yourself.

Art is continually working to take the crust of familiarity off everyday objects.