Art Quotes

Artists, like yourself, are born with a need to express that's just innate.

We could move catalog, if he'd only die quicker.

There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.

You need intelligence, and you need to look. You need a gaze, a wide gaze, penetrating and roving - thats what's useful for art.

The Art of Fulfillment is the ability to experience not only the thrill of the chase, but also the magic of the moment, the unbridled joy of feeling truly alive.

For me, being an artist with a high profile is a good thing for art.

That's not writing, that's typing

In my brain all I think about is fame.

We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance, we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned.

It is as we respond to the understandings and feelings inherent in . . . art that we acquire much of our truth, much of our nobility and grace, and much of our pleasure.

Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.

Unlike art, the consumption of fashion is not based primarily on knowledge or education but functions through visual awareness, a type of sensuality and perception of the corporeal self.

There's always stress involved in any genre or art form, there's always going to be a struggle. If there's no struggle, you wouldn't do anything. What are you going do? Retire?

Perfection bores me, in art, in music; most of all, in people. Luckily, perfection is rare.

Art moves. Hence its civilizing power.

The true artist can only labor con amore.

I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.

I trust people who are violent about art, as long as they aren't closed-minded. But, unfortunately, most art blowhards are also art bigots.

I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.

I lost my job as an art salesman. It was the customer's fault. He wanted to buy the wrong paintings.

if newspapers were written by people whose sole object in writing was to tell the truth about politics and the truth about art we should not believe in war, and we should believe in art.

Science, like art, religion, political theory, or psychoanalysis - is work that holds out the promise of philosophic understanding, excites in us the belief that we can 'make sense of it all.

Between the wolf in the tall grass and the wolf in the tall story there is a shimmering go-between. That go-between, that prism, is the art of literature.

I do not see any essential difference between abstract and primitive art. Both are simple and sincere. Naturally, we should not generalize in these matters: It is the individual artist that counts.

To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.

We have our arts, the ancients had theirs... We cannot raise obelisks a hundred feet high in a single piece, but our meridians are more exact.

You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.

All the arts are brothers; each one is a light to the others.

The first move toward the determination of the direction of my art was the fortunate invention of plans for Blok’s wonder The Puppet Show.

A poet feels the impulse to create a work of art when the passive awe provoked by an event is transformed into a desire to express that awe in a rite of worship.

Earth, receive an honored guest; William Yeats is laid to rest. Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry.

To me Art's subject is the human clay, / And landscape but a background to a torso; / All Cezanne's apples I would give away / For one small Goya or a Daumier.

Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia.

The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.

Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away.

Art rides in on pleasure.

Art may be for the privileged few but they have earned the privilege and deny it to no one.

To an art historian a Giotto is a 14th Century painting. To an artist it was painted yesterday. We free ourselves from the past when we see it freshly.

Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons.

Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.

In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad.

There is no regional art. The only region left is the art magazine.

The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepen his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains.

Any blockhead can arrange a sublet. All I ever wanted was to support myself on art.

Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.

I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless.

And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.

High minds, of native pride and force, Most deeply feel thy pangs, Remorse; Fear, for their scourge, means villains have, Thou art the torturer of the brave!

When I start doing a body of work I feel vulnerable, fearful. If I stopped trusting the process, I would stop doing art.

Valuing a business is part art and part science.