Art Quotes

My art is representational by choice....if the art of painting is to survive, it must describe and express people, their lives and times. It must communicate.

The highest art one can learn is the art of loving, and that the ultimate creativity and the highest art are born out of a knack - meditation.

Our music is always, as you know, very spacey- computer graphics, music, images, lyrics, and visual art we make ourselves, or that we make with artists. And it's all synchronized.

Art is evidence of our most creative moment.

Art is long, and critics are the insects of a day.

The usual criticism of a novel about an artist is that, no matter how real he is as a man, he is not real to us as an artist, since we have to take on trust the works of art he produces.

Art is what is unnecessary, but necessary only to that artist.

If art is to survive it must describe and express people, their lives and times.

I'm also inspired by great art and people who create and contribute rather than destroy.

The art school babe quotes William Blake as she rolls a joint, then I think that I'll score.

I was an art student at the time, like thousands of others.

I don't make art with grandiose delusions. I do know there are limits to what art is capable of. That makes it all the more appealing to me. And I can do as I will whenever I choose.

I'd rather do anything than make commercial art. I didn't go to school for art. Making art has certain advantages for me but they would never be in commercial direction.

Art is not a plaything, but a necessity, and its essence, form, is not a decorative adjustment, but a cup into which life can be poured and lifted to the lips and be tasted.

art is at least in part a way of collecting information about the universe.

Bad art is maintained by the neurotic, who is deadly afraid of authentic art because it inspires him to go on living, and he is terrified of life.

Art is art. Television has elevated itself, in certain ways, but it's always pushed people's consciousness.

We play different people - our art form is performance art - so unless you're playing the same type of person, I don't know if you could improve or make it worse.

Art is arbitrary but it sort of reveals itself to be right or wrong anyway.

Everything combines for the works of Merzbow. I don't see them as being different and separate. ...Music and art is not separate. I mix rock sounds and art together .

The way you would know if someone is famous in the art world is that you would ask your mother. My mother knows who Picasso was. She knows who Warhol was.

The art world loves to throw things out and bring new things in. There's always this new circle of artists entering every five years.

I think that artists have a better chance at making great art if they know as much about every different area in the industry as they can.

Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is or ought to be ruins the power to write or paint.

. . .art is a discovery of harmony, a vision of disparities reconciled, or shape beneath confusion.

The history of art is filled with people who did not live long enough to enjoy a sympathetic public, and their misery argues that criticism should try to speed justice.

Some gifted adventurer is always sailing round the world of art and science, to bring home costly merchandise from every port.

I really wasn't about to get a Ph.D. in art history, you know, which you'd absolutely needed. And that was not something I wanted. And I loved art history, but not that way.

I always thought there was a - even in the most, quote, "conceptual art," there is always a physical aspect to it. I never knew what the term meant.

I didn't like anti-Vietnam War art. I didn't like feminist art. I thought it was heavy-handed and stupid - as art.

Art is challenging and frustrating but I don't linger in it. I work on five paintings at a time so if I'm frustrated I put one down and begin another.

Art is an attempt to understand, yielding pleasure in the attempt whether or not we understand.

The fine-art world knows very little about the cartoon world.

Art is a Great Goddess of infinite intrigue and illusion, and even a lifetime of worship may not find her fickle soul.

Art is a path on which we honour our world.

The thing about art is that life is in no danger of being meaningless.

It's sometimes hard to talk about politics and art. Obviously, I have my core beliefs, but I think art is best when it's troublesome and pushes against stuff.

I think that my responsibility to my art is to try to get it right or to push the boundaries of what I'm able to do in any way.

The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art.

Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.

A winning wave, (deserving note.) In the tempestuous petticote, A careless shoe-string, in whose tye I see a wilde civility,-- Doe more bewitch me than when art Is too precise in every part.

Works of art... do not force meanings on their audience; meaning emerges, adds up, unfolds from their imagined centres... takes one through the process of discovering meaning.

But of works of art little can be said.

This telegram is a work of art if I say it is.

The world around us is in a sea change, and I think the glory of art is that it cannot only survive change, it can lead it

The country is so wounded, bleeding, and hurt right now. The country needs to be healed-it's not going to be healed from the top, politically. How are we going to heal? Art is the healing force.

To be the agent whose touch changes nature from a wild force to a work of art is inspiration of the highest order.

All art is holy. Not that it is all long-faced and miserable; it can be wild and wooly. But if it transforms you, it is art. And it is holy.

All art is the tension, expressed between the uncontainable and its one perfect inevitable form.

There's an audience for all kinds of great art.