Art Quotes

Make an enemy of jealousy and envy. As fast and soon as you can…. The art world is high school with money.

All that matters on the stage is good art.

I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.

One function of art is to de-kitschify kitsch.

The first drugs I ever took, I was still at art school, with the group - we all took it together - was Benzedrine from the inside of an inhaler.

I'd say seeking is one of the fundamental artistic impulses. Art is about discovery. The medium is not the message.

Who is one's audience, the spiritually hostile professional art world or one's visually insensitive Christian neighbour?

In oratory the greatest art is to hide art.

What makes a good work of art is something that honors certain traditions and breaks with others.

Art is a celebration of life, intended by the artist to put the spectator in touch with the divine.

Art is the highest expression of the human spirit.

I think that the older I get and the more comfortable I get with myself, the more I realize that art is about relinquishing control of your emotions and being vulnerable and innocent.

If I want to do something in the TV industry, I should be allowed to explore that, but not in a way where it has to cancel out or ruin my visual art career.

Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliché for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.

Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it.

I think that an obsession with art history gave rise to the work.

Art is something that everyone should be able to have access to.

Football is the priority, even more than school. Art is frowned upon. I had to sneak music in.

Both science and art have to do with ordered complexity.

It seems to me that we become more dear one to the other, in together admiring works of art, which speak to the soul by their true grandeur.

Great art always transcends its culture, while lesser art merely reflects it.

All the great things we know have come to us from neurotics. It is they who have founded religions and created great works of art.

The art world has become the R&D department for so much fashion and music, so knock-offs are getting better and better.

All art is concerned with the creation of an emotional reaction on the part of the beholder.

Fine art is something wonderful that's left long into the future ... eternal beauty.

A work of art is an echo chamber which repeats what people say about it.

I never understood the low art/high art distinction.

I never saw the point in listening to only one thing. The low art/high art distinction comes from the establishment telling me how I'm supposed to think.

Making art is a journey.

If some of this art is not for you, that's fine. Art appreciation is a subjective matter, and we each bring our own experience, knowledge and taste to the party.

I wrote on my desk wall when I was writing the film...'Art is socialism, but life is capitalism.' That's the hard thing in all of it if you expect to make a living.

For me, art begins when there is something left that cannot be explained.

What is art in the final analysis? Art is the shining forth of one's interiority.

Leo Tolstoy said the purpose of art is to teach you to love life. And that's what I want.

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.

Making art is like giving a gift: evidence of your spirit and that you are here.

Programming is the art of writing essays in crystal clear prose and making them executable

Art is a crime scene in a sense, a crucible, of the mind and heart and our dreams.

Art is not nature... There was a lot more to be got out of color.

I think that most art is asking a question or is looking for something, looking for answers and that is what life seems to be about for most people.

Most works of art are, necessarily, bad...; one suffers through the many for the few.

Tolstoy's definition of art is the inverse of the truth; the task of art is to transform not perception into feeling, but feeling into perception.

Art is the flower of life and, as seed, it gives back life.

It has been a sort of maxim, that the greatest art is to conceal art; but I know not how, among some people we meet with, their greatest cunning is to appear cunning.

Art is the Godhead as revealed in the works of man.

Art is 110 percent sweat.

My experience in the music industry made me very thick-skinned. Your art is something very personal and there's never a shortage of critics when it comes to art.

Art is doing. Art deals directly with life.

[My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.'

Ah, well, during the Middle Ages, religion was often able to redeem art. Today, however, art is about the only thing that can redeem religion, and the clerics will never forgive us for that.