Art Quotes

An art critic is someone who hopes to see his ideas translated to canvas without having to learn how to paint.

Hostility to art is also hostility to the new, to the unforeseen.

It is the nature of carnivores to get power and then, having disposed of their enemies, to deploy the emollient powers of Great Art to make themselves look like herbivores.

Florence and art is something that is part of my life and is part of myself.

I think that the ideals of youth are fine, clear and unencumbered; and that the real art of living consists in keeping alive the conscience and sense of values we had when we were young.

Art is significant deformity.

Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.

Die Kunst ist ewig, ihre Formen wandeln sich. (The art is eternal, their shapes are changing.)

I like connecting with people, and that's what good art is, a point of connection. There's nothing better, on stage or on film, than feeling like you've achieved that.

To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise.

For me, art is such a wide concept - anything can be art.

Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.

Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. The medium doesn't matter. The intent does.

My dad's intense love for art and music is what drove me to learn music

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.

The work of art which I do not make, none other will ever make.

The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.

The world is full of paradoxes and life is full of opposites. The art is to embrace the opposites, accommodate the paradoxes and live with a smile.

Not only was [Edwin Land] one of the great inventors of our time but, more important, he saw the intersection of art and science and business and built an organization to reflect that.

A race is a work of art.

Art is the space between the viewer and the rectangle that hangs on the wall. Unless something of the person that created the work is there, there's nothing for the viewer to take away.

Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.

The power of works of art still continues to be secretly nourished by imitation... kitsch

To persons uninstructed in natural history, their country or seaside stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall.

Art is not an end in itself. It introduces the soul into a higher spiritual order, which it expresses and in some sense explains.

Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make.

A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything.

The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.

Great art allows you to transcend your mortal frame and to reach for the stars. I think great science does the same thing.

Great art is clear thinking about mixed feelings.

It is the greatest of crimes to depress true art and science.

I would go there quite frequently. I met and became close with John Szarkowski of the Museum of Modern Art. He was incredibly supportive about me working in color.

The art of walking on quicksand is still beyond me. What I learned is only how difficult this art is to master and how hard people need to struggle to learn it.

As my poor father used to say In 1963, Once people start on all this Art Goodbye, moralitee! And what my father used to say Is good enough for me.

Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.

I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design.

I think of art as coming from daily life, daily experience. I think it's very important not to have it become work for some kind of elite circle.

Mixed Martial Arts is wonderful to watch, it is very practical but dangerous at the same time. You have to be very careful when doing something like that.

The first choice an artist makes is precisely to be an artist, and if he chooses to be an artist it is in consideration of what he is himself and because of a certain idea he has of art

Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Art thaws even the frozen, darkened soul, opening it to lofty spiritual experience.

Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents.

If men are to remain civilized or to become so, the art of associating together must grow and improve in the same ratio in which the equality of conditions is increased.

Fertilization of the soul is the reason for the necessity of art.

How many lives we live in one, And how much less than one, in all.

There is a lot that horses and art share in common. I have found that most horse people are art lovers, and vice versa.

The deep art... That's the part that has to be guarded like a miser would his money... Like a dope addict would his dope... Like a lover with their love.

I recommend the art of slow reading.

I don't wish power, only art -art and passion.

ALL ART, OF COURSE, IS INTELLECTUAL, BUT FOR ME, ALL THE ARTS, AND CINEMA EVEN MORE SO, MUST ABOVE ALL BE EMOTIONAL AND ACT UPON THE HEART.