Art Quotes

The impact of black music and black art forms on American culture is really difficult to appreciate.

Basically, I was always very interested in comedy, but I was much more sort of academic. And then, after college, loaded with my art history degree, I decided to go work at Comedy Central as a temp.

I'm all about supporting anyone whose art is also the way they make their living.

I'm a bit of a lefty. I like the idea of art and music collectives.

Kaz's art is a powerful example of discipline and freedom. His classical calligraphy captures the inner movement and stillness of the brush and mind.

Art is collective. Always, it has a tradition behind it.

With all its excesses, the modern impressionistic movement has given us one discovery, the color violet. It is the only discovery of importance in the art world since Velazquez.

There's something retro about the pop culture references in the paintings, so I'd imagine it's not as much a pop culture reference as a pop art reference.

Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your art is success, whether you make money from it or not.

I remember Steve Kaufman as the artist on Saturday Night Live doing the Pop Art portraits for the show.

I don't make a division between an art film and commercial art.

Art isn't just paint and music, art is breaking glass and the sounds we make without realizing.

My art became very public.

Just trust yourself and you'll learn the art of living.

True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work.

The whole art of living consists in giving up existence in order to exist.

Art is in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled when he takes it up.

Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.

True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature.

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.

The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Art is a mediator of the unspeakable.

Art is amoral, whether we accept this or not; it does not take sides. The finest fictions are cold at heart.

Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living.

In free society art is not a weapon...Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Art is a statement of one in the face of all; not a statement by one for the use of all.

The practise of an art is essential to the whole man, not because of what art is but because of what art does to the artist.

The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.

One of the challenges to our nation today is overcoming the notion that art is kind of a nice-to-have, when in reality art is a need-to-have.

Art is a conduit toward human needs and perception.

Art is just a series of natural gestures. For God's sake, don't try to be artistic - all wild animals walk the same way.

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

Art is a journey of discovery.

Photography is the dominant and fascinating and only authentic folk art of the twentieth century.

Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth.

If you can draw the stone rightly, everything within reach of art is also within yours.

Your art is to be the praise of something that you love. It may only be the praise of a shell or a stone.

All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own.

Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great men.

Critics are the eunuchs of literature. They stand by in envious awe while the whole man and his partner demonstrate the art of living.

Art is the employent of the powers of nature for an end.

I used to think that great art happened without argument, and maybe that’s not the case. Maybe the things that are most important in this life, you have to fight for.

The only thing worse than a silly politician analyzing art is a silly artist analyzing politics

What's beautiful about art is that it circumscribes a space, a physical and mental space. If you try to put the entire world into every page, you turn out chaos.

Marriage, sanctified by the bond of fidelity, is the nearest life gets to a work of art.

Art can be very political but that can't be the purpose of art, it can't be the driving force. It isn't with any of the books that I love, anyway.

When I was 19 I went to art school. I had six months of teaching myself to play baritone ukulele under my belt so I was sort of a novice folkie... I was singing folk songs at that time.

Computers creating art is an upsetting concept mostly because of what it means about humans.

The art of writing is mysterious, the opinions we hold are ephemeral.