Art Quotes
I feel like, to me, art is a ladder to God, in my own opinion, you know. And so, for me, the more people that I can reach through many different artistic avenues, the better.
I would say being deeply involved in the art world would help keep a young artist on track. Doing what you love, so that your focus is your artistry.
You can't really have art without having a sense of community as art is for others to enjoy as well.
True art is but the anti-type of nature; the embodiment of discovered beauty in utility.
I love to bring humour into my work. Because comedy is not a huge part of the art world. And big-business film takes itself very seriously.
What someone calls my books is irrelevant to me. I consider them works of art and rules and categories and labels mean nothing.
The most powerful part of the art is experiential, yet it's the hardest to describe because it's nonverbal.
Art is really predicated upon the experiences that you've had in your life. You only have to share what you've consumed.
I think that's what all art is for - for people to express what it is to be human. That's the purpose of it.
I feel that works of art are an opportunity for people to construct meaning, so I don't usually tell what they mean. It conveys to people that they have to participate.
Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to give it some and to do it by every artifice possible-truer than the truth.
Don't make the mistake of believing it's enough to reproduce the realities of life.... The object of art is to give life a shape, and to do it by every conceivable artifice.
I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art.
Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once.
Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother tongue.
It's so much of what art and creativity are, being able to confront your own demons. If you can do that, you can get through just about everything.
For me personally, I love art and artists of all mediums and we've seen madness is more often than not present in the greatest painters, poets, writers, and songwriters in history.
From 1940 to the present, the art world and particularly Los Angeles, has undergone a transformation not unlike the Italian Renaissance.
Disney is our contemporary landscape. The best art will reflect that and challenge you. Disney comforts you, whereas the best art shakes up your comfort level and perception.
One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.
I think the benefits are tremendous, and the power of accessibility in art is one of it's most explosive and insidious attributes.
Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
The New York art world readily proves people wrong. Just when folks say that things stink and flibbertigibbet critics wish the worst on us all because we're not pure enough, good omens appear.
A canon is antithetical to everything the New York art world has been about for the past 40 years, during which we went from being the center of the art world to being one of many centers.
Auction houses run a rigged game. They know exactly how many people will be bidding on a work and exactly who they are. In a gallery, works of art need only one person who wants to pay for them.
Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles him. Me included.
Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings.
The art world is an all-volunteer force. No one has to be here if he or she doesn't want to be, and we should be associating with anyone we want to.
The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.
The last time money left the art world, intrepid types maxed out their credit cards and opened galleries, and a few of them have become the best in the world.
Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any other institution or business. Academics aren't necessarily more high-minded than gallerists.
I hate when dealers talk to me. I love dealers - they're some of our favorite people in the art world. But I hate if they do a sales pitch on me. I can't stand it.
