Art Quotes

The truth is far beyond what we can see. Therefore my art is an invitation to comprehend this fact.

The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal.

Conceptual art is entirely word-bound. It is, in fact, the kind of art that is exhausted in its verbal description.

Nobody knows what makes good art. As an artist, when it happens, you're grateful, and then you get on with it.

Art is for entertainment purposes, but it's also to reflect our dreams, our hopes, the present, the future the past - whether it's good or bad.

Art is like politics. Any theory carried too far ends in sterility, and freshness is only gained by following some other line.

Religion without art is a dead system of dogmas which have no effect on life.

In ceasing to subordinate creative power to any supreme value, modern art has brought home to us the presence of that creative power throughout the whole history of art.

Perhaps art is a quest for the perfect, or even the imperfect. Reality always falls short on both sides.

To be great, art has to point somewhere.

All art is the expression of one and the same thing- the relation of the spirit of man to the spirit of other men and to the world.

The immortality of great art seems bound up with the inevitable loss of its original surface meaning and its rebirth in the spirit of every new age.

Art is a product of nature in general, in the particular form of human nature.

Art is the most valued thing in the world...it is the expression of the highest form of human energy,the creative power nearest to the divine.The power is within - the question is how to reach it.

We are not talking about a new cognition in relation to abstract art, rather a new area of cognition.

Those who try to combat the production of shoddy pictures are enemies of the best art today... It always feels tragic to see people labouring to saw off the branch they are sitting on.

The only original part in a work of art is the infusion of the artist's own character, if he has one.

I do have that mindset - that most good art comes from some turmoil, from someone trying to come to some equilibrium, or come up and get a breath.

Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality.

The apprehension of... values is intuitive; but it is not a built-in intuition, not something with which one is born. Intuition in art is actually the result of... prolonged tuition.

We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art is practicable.

The art is in selecting what is worthwhile to take the trouble about.

Hatchery fish have the same colours, but they always seem muted like bad reproductions of great art.

I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if thats what youd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other.

I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.

The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings.

The desire for bad art is the desire bred of habit: like the smoker's desire for tobacco, more marked by the extreme malaise of denial than by any very strong delight in fruition.

What is essential in a work of art is that it should rise far above the realm of personal life and speak to the spirit and heart of the poet as man to the spirit and heart of mankind.

We do not judge great art. It judges us.

The term 'Pre-Raphaelite' is in danger of becoming one of the most misused tags in art history

In England, pop art and fine art stand resolutely back to back.

What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is ugly and grotesque.

The true work of art is the one which the seventh wave of genius throws up the beach where the undertow of time cannot drag it back.

Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness and atonement — meaning atoneness, the state of being at one with the object.

Because it's visual art, a lot of it comes from childhood experience but then a lot comes from the visual language - in advertising and stuff like that - which is around us.

Art is an end in itself; its values are intrinsic.

What makes a set of lines and colors into art is the relationship between this line and that one; the way one color or form echoes another in a different part of the canvas.

Art is like beginning a sentence before you know its ending.

I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art.

I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure. I think there is a contradiction in an art of total despair, because the very fact that the art is made seems to contradict despair.

I didn't know anything about conceptual art when I left Kansas. I went to Cal Arts to be a painter, but the exciting stuff was happening elsewhere, so I took a holiday from painting for a few years.

It is my entire visual art practice: I eat, sleep, think, write about and do drawing.

And then we moved to New Jersey and I went to the Art Students League.

Most great art is created when the artist feels they are channeling something rather than trying to communicate something.

The art of living is always to make a good thing out of a bad thing.

As you can see, at my age - 48 - Art is still one big experiment.

Art is really a battle.

Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.

Art is a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are dead and those who are yet to be born.

Time is not important, but art is.