Art Quotes

Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.

Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.

I'm looking to evolve the concept of the new renaissance artist, taking the world by storm through the art of public display and demonstration, with technical savvy, using cell phones and computers.

At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways.

And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.

But in Christianity, by contrast, the freedom of the children of God was also freedom from all important worldly interests, from all art and science, etc.

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.

I will never forget experiencing Venice for the first time. It feels like you are transported to another time - the art, music, food and pure romance in the air is like no other place.

Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.

I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them.

Fashion, for me, is anything that's aesthetic and beautiful. Art, food, film. It's something that I appreciate and really like.

Although even when I am being idle I have plenty of food for thought both early and late - thoughts both about and not about art.

Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself.

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.

I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.

Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

Encourage good music and art and literature in your homes. Homes that have a spirit of refinement and beauty will bless the lives of your children forever.

In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.

I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work.

What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit.

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.

Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.

Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others' expectations can be avoided.

Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic.

Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.

I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have, and it's cathartic as well, because I create art out of anger, something positive out of something negative.

It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved.

When it came to the stylish and graceful art of ballroom dancing, my dad was a king of the clubs, a prowling tiger and a wonderfully natural mover.

While it is true that commercial art is always in danger of ending up as a prostitute, it is equally true that noncommercial art is always in danger of ending up as an old maid.

There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries and civilizations.

There is no such thing as abstract art, or else all art is abstract, which amounts to the same thing. Abstract art no more exists than does curved art yellow art or green art.

Most art students are generous till it comes to squeezing their colour on the palette... Many pictures haven't become works of art simply because the artist tried to save a nickel's worth of colour.

It's very true that an artist who networks well will have better opportunities than one who doesn't network well. But great networking skills without great art won't change art history.

I'm not creating art that starts with politics or starts with ethics. I feel I am a conceptual artist because my art is more concerned with epistemology than ethics or politics or even aesthetics.

Craft' gets a bad rap. Mediocre art is not caused by craft; it is caused by artists. Good art employs whatever craft works best.

Good art has everything you need to know about it in the work, not on a wall label. Art is here to take us beyond language.

Art is not the spiritual side of business.

Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.

Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it. I don’t feel that much anger. I equally have a lot of joy.

Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it.