Art Quotes

Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself

I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'

Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective, of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and therefore art is the highest means of knowledge.

The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.

Do not imitate one another's style. If you do, so far as your art is concerned you will be called a grandson, rather than the son of Nature.

The fact is, art is alive. It's moving around. It's alive.

All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.

I think that many things that go on in an art school have a tendency to undermine confidence, and that shouldn't be part of the ballgame, ever.

Art is both creation and recreation.

Speed, the fundamental condition of the activities of our day is the power of photography, indeed the modern art of today, the art of the split second.

The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words.

One of the greatest difficulties in civil war is, that more art is required to know what should be concealed from our friends, than what ought to be done against our enemies.

The whole point of art school is that you're going to be able to have nudes all day long and a teacher who is there to move you. It's great.

All art is failure. How one fails is a different matter.

In some respects I will never die. Because art is immortal. What we leave behind and what we create - the energy that we put out into the world is eternal.

We believe in the art of war. We are trying to get our competition to attack us with angry, virulent energy, so we can transform that into larger market share.

Every artist should live by these words: Never feel bad about successfully selling your creations. Never feel bad about creating art you can't sell.

I love to collect modern art.

Do what you love. Go to a good art school and study with the best teachers. Move to New York and read Ask Mark Kostabi.

It is possible to deal with the entire environment as a work of art.

Primitivism has become the vulgar cliché of much modern art and speculation.

Art is the god you have not seen.

France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.

The whole idea of ideas in art is useless. Only have ideas about form.

That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life.

The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art.

Art is a game. Too bad for him who makes a duty of it.

If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be?

The most beautiful thing about art is that there is no saturation point in creating!

Teaching art is a shared experience. Our ability to share our own personal vision and interact with others through art can become realized.

The most joyous painting is not done for the art world, it is done for the inner world.

Art is a form of asset. Hedge-fund managers who have made money fast should diversify into other areas.

Part of my attraction to ancient art is that there is an element of risk, of speculation.

I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film.

Without a strong cup to carry the emotion, it is only a curiosity. Great art can come to us only in strong cups. Without emotion, there is nothing to carry.

If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds.... I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.

The most difficult art is not in the choice of men, but in giving to the men chosen the highest service of which they are capable.

Art is like therapy; what comes up is what comes up. It may be dark, but that's what comes up. You may want to keep some of it in a drawer but never judge it.

I think that experiencing through art is a wonderful way to expand the horizon and everything around it.

Under Thatcher, who ruled us with an iron rod, great art was made. Amazing designers and musicians. Acid house was born. Very colourful and progressive.

In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.

All art is subversive.

Chatter about art is almost always useless.

You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.

There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.

Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.

There must not be a canon of orthodoxy where art is judged and measured. The culture cannot move forward with our heads turned backwards.

That is why my pictures don't look like modern art. It's some sort of timidity on my part I'm sure.

The purpose of art is to collide the intellectual and visceral together at the highest speed possible.