Art Quotes
Creating music, visual art, producing music and film are always at the forefront of my life.
With good art, that's what happens - it comes directly out from inside of you almost instinctively.
I wouldnt be where I am today without the amazing public arts education that I had.
Duchamp's urinal was art once he put it in a gallery. In fact, one working definition of art is anything that is in a gallery.
There's a kind of perverseness or betrayal in that idea that art is somehow superior to life. Or that it's more important to write well than it is to take out the garbage.
Truthfullness to life-both fantasy life and factual life-is the basis of all great art.
I suggest that the great art belongs to all people, all the time--that indeed it is made for the people, by the people, to the people.
Art is beyond the enmity! That's why you can always love the art of your enemy, even though you hate him!
In art school, I started to see Pettibon in magazines, and I figured it out backward. I was into the idea that someone could show work in galleries while making album covers and photocopied books.
You'll see more violence in any television crime series than you will in my films Art is there to have a stimulating effect, if it earns its name. You have to be honest, that's the only thing.
The purpose of art actually is, in many cases, to make you feel quite uncomfortable. Or at least to go to that place that's already of discomfort inside of you and tap into that.
A wellborn mind that is practiced in dealing with people makes itself thoroughly agreeable by itself. Art is nothing else but thelist and record of the productions of such minds.
Art is so subjective--it means something different to every person. The important thing for it to do is to touch on the senses and emotions.
I'll never understand the art world. But I kind of feel like there's been some art world/black metal crossovers happening for a while.
I still have a lot my Disney store art left and if I ever run out I'll just redraw it, because it will still be my original art and as a freelancer I own it.
Art is many things but, directly or indirectly, it always describes the human condition.
Madame Schmid belonged to that large class of persons who believe that a man who engages in any form of art is necessarily a loafer.
Art is love creating the new world and justice is love rolling up its sleeves to heal the old one.
However advanced the technology may become, life is impossible without humanity, and that's why we need a combination of science of thinking and art of living!
There's not much high and low culture any more: there's just mingling streams of art and what matters is whether it's good art or bad art.
Works of Art are meant to connect the human heart to inspiration, for cosmic consciousness to grow in the Supreme Reality rooted in Life and Being.
Collaboration is necessary for making great art. Everybody has a perspective on what they think or feel the material should ultimately look like when it hits the screen.
Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner are the funniest dudes ever, and they have great careers on their own. They made great art in the '90s, and they still have dinner three times a week.
Picasso said art is a lie that tells the truth. What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it?
I'm a quiet person, I'm not a flashy art world person. I'm in the studio in the middle of nowhere. There's sheep and fields. The work has to be authentic in that way.
My thesis in terms of all my art is finding the beauty in the ugly truth. Just find the beauty in realism and what's there.
it's not my job to preach a sermon. Art is anyhow a homily. My job is to speak in living images, not in arguments. I must exhibit life full-face, not discuss life.
