Art Quotes

Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it only as it subserves these ends.

The bottom line for me is that life is short and art is long.

Art is a wicked thing. It is what we are.

Some poems are art because of their passion.

To speak technically photography is the art of writing with light. But if I want to think about it more philosophically , I can say that photography is the art of writing with time.

Art isn't everything. It's just about everything.

The subject matter of art is life, life as it actually is; but the function of art is to make life better.

I always try to have a book on hand, traveling is an excellent way of providing perspective, and studying Art History has made going to art museums way more fun than you can imagine.

Art is the signature of man.

No artist knows everything... but since every artist knows more than he can tell, all art is lying by omission.

My art was not an answer - it was a question.

Art is too long, and life is too short.

The same person is coming through in a different medium.... My art is simple, direct and definite.

Art is gushing hot bile on the fields and harvesting the looks of nasty dwarfs.

Art is created in a state of delirium. Anyting else is the restoration of monuments. Collectors are artist that do not have a home. they have to make one for themselves.

I wanted to be a painter and an artist. And it's interesting that in some of my later musical works, I refer so often and associate myself with works of art.

The finest works of art are those in which there is the least matter. The closer expression comes to thought, the more the word clings to the idea and disappears, the more beautiful the work of art.

The morality of art is in its very beauty.

Art is the attention we pay to the wholeness of the world.

The art of writing, like the art of love, runs all the way from a kind of routine hard to distinguish from piling bricks to a kind of frenzy closely related to delirium tremens.

Only through apprehending, by means of present-day creations, how art is created, can the creations of other periods be genuinely appreciated.

Greatness in art is always a by-product.

I just feel that art is more important than ever, that art is something that can unify us, that can make America stronger.

Photography is a witness against the mistaken opinion that art is an imitation of nature.

Art is a place where you can be wild. Kids-all of us-need that.

I think it's always hard for people to get their head around the fact that populist, commercial films can also actually be great works of art.

I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. Hes very original, very accurate and acute.

...A traveller is to be reverenced as such. His profession is the best symbol of our life. Going from - toward; it is the history of every one of us. It is a great art to saunter.

Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there. It is next to beauty, and a very high art.

Art is a point of view, and a genius way of looking at things.

Art is contemplation of the world in a state of grace and imaginatively reflecting that subjective understanding.

I'm always on the look out for 'the good image'. I'm like The Borg (you know, Star Trek) inasmuch as I assimilate everything - but I like to think I'm working in the Pop Art tradition.

Art is the filigrain of a little mind, and is twisted and involved and curled, but would reach farther if laid out in a straight line.

Every art is a church without communicants, presided over by a parish of the respectable. An artist is born kneeling; he fights to stand. A critic, by nature of the judgment seat, is born sitting.

In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was nearly a coherent thing-for a minute.

I doubt if there is a single really excellent art school now available in New York.

Discussions of Western civilization are too often confined to works of high art that reflect a relatively narrow element of public taste and experience.

Art is great only when it bears the stamp of the individual.

Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [...] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment.

Art is not cozy and it is not mocked. Art tells the only truth that ultimately matters. It is the light by which human things can be mended. And after art there is, let me assure you all, nothing.

Art is a kind of artificial memory and the pain which attends all serious art is a sense of that factitiousness.

Art is amoral; so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books; there are only poorly conceived and poorly executed ones.

The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.

Art is the human process that produces by the way (it is not its only or ultimate object) Secondary Belief.

... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness

I was particularly proud of my performance as the Joker. I considered it a piece of pop art.

Art is only worth what people will pay for it. Artists do not get paid by the hour.

I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.

To me the most interesting thing about man is that he is an animal who practices art and science and in every known society practices both together.

only when we have a respect for time will we have learned something of the art of living.