Art Quotes

Failures in art usually lead to something else interesting.

Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love; the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional of arts.

Youth, art, love, dreams, true-heartedness - why must they go out of the summer world into darkness?

Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure. I always seem to be wrapped in the melodrama of vulgarity. I do not think... of art as a situation of comfort.

None but blockheads copy each other.

When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded

In living, as in art, rules are drawn from practice; not the other way around.

The heart desires, the hand refrains. The Godhead fires, the soul attains.

The best came from my martial arts teacher, who also taught Elvis. He said, Your ego will get you killed.

O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art As glorious to this night, being o'er my head As is a winged messenger of heaven

Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire; that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.

Truly thou art damned, like an ill-roasted egg, all on one side.

To thee, fair Freedom! I retire From flattery, cards, and dice, and din: Nor art thou found in mansions higher Than the low cot, or humble inn.

Art! What a concept! It saved my life! A place where you can do as you please!

I get so confused about life photography art.

Music, the most abstract and uncanny art, is an eternal river of sound moving through time. We can free ourselves from whatever may be holding us back, and join that flowing river.

You can spend your money on art works and sit down and look at them. Or you can use your money to help people.

An error is more useful than truth: truth is a thought suffering from arteriosclerosis.

Art for me is like breathing.

I have the belief that a person and his art should have one direction; your work should be a synonym for your person - the two shouldn't be separate.

I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books.

Christian art today should be twentieth-century art.

Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them.

That's creativity in a nutshell. A messy tug-of-war with imagination to erase that feeling that nothing really matters anyway.

I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.

Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.

The hare of history once more overtakes the tortoise of art.

Every great artist has the sense of provocation.

Art cannot be bought or sold. It can only be created or destroyed.

Poverty and loneliness could be seen as a liberation from strivings to become rich and popular.

Books like Twilight are not art. They are mass-produced crap that is meant to be consumed by the widest possible audience, for the largest possible profit.

There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private.

Art is a delayed echo.

A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.

The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business.

Sometimes words are not needed, and the simplicity of expressing yourself through an art form is one of the best ways of communication.

Yeah, I like to be the maker of the art. And I like and want the money. But I don't really dig being famous.

I like music because it's the only invisible art form.

The contest between form and content is what, is what art is about - it's art history. That's what basically everybody has ever contended with. The problem is uniquely complex in still photography.

When I went to college, and I went to art school, I started to realize that Warhol was cool and that pop art was fun.

Contemporary art photography, or, more specifically, what I would term mainstream art photography, represents for the most part the mining of an exhausted lode.

I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it's there and to push it just a little bit faster.

Because Chinese art is booming, it legitimizes this profession.

The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.

We stand guard over works of art, but species representing the work of aeons are stolen from under our noses

Seeing well transforms mere existence into the art of living.

I read a book called The Art of Loving. A lot of things seemed clear while I was reading it but afterwards I went back to being more or less the same.

I think performance art comes from a simple place of wanting to express things beyond just sound.

The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.

Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.