Art Quotes

Asia discovered two remedies for the cruelty of man, art and religion. America discarded both and is drowning in hate and aggressivity.

All the art of analysis consists in saying a truth only when the other person is ready for it, has been prepared for it by an organic process of gradation and evolution.

There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.

To be able to do art, it was a luxury to me.

I truly believe the art's larger than the artist. Who cares about John Steinbeck? I care about the Joad family.

If life were organized, there would be no need for art.

An artist cannot get along without a public; and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.

Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship.

In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over it.

Our art culture makes no attempt to search the past for precedents, but transforms the entire past into a sequence of provisional responses to a problem that remains intact.

A large share of our art heritage is now derived from peoples whose idea of art was quite other than ours, and even from peoples to whom the very idea of art meant nothing.

In art, we are the first heirs of all the earth. . . . Accidents impair and Time transforms, but it is we who choose.

People are discontent; men are troubled; and the literature is excellent.

Only the poor can create art.

I like to dress up but I'm not so concerned with looking very sexy, it's really more the art of dressing.

The history of modern culture is a history of popular entertainments evolving into art.

One of my goals as a professor of English is to teach students to recognize and think critically about what makes something art.

In the arts they call it plagiarism, in business they call it competition.

Art you can flush down the loo means nothing to me, even were the loo to be selected by Marcel Duchamp

Interviewing is not a democratic art.

A living museum must surely see itself as a locus of argument. A breathing art institution is not a lockup but a moveable feast.

It's art that's taught me to think and to write.

Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it.

There's a side that I want to do just like really retarded arty films … like parody, pretentious art films that kind of are supposed to have some deep meaning.

If you're someone who's making film or TV or music, or any kind of art form now, there's a billion outlets and they all have an opinion.

I'm for mechanical art. When I took up silk screening, it was to more fully exploit the preconceived image through the commercial techniques of multiple reproduction.

Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted space is any space that has art in it.

Death means a lot of money, honey. Death can really make you look like a star.

Paintings are too hard. The things I want to show are mechanical. Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine, wouldn't you?

Making a martial arts film in English to me is the same as John Wayne speaking Chinese in a western.

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations.

Photography has been a passion of mine since I was 15. After my kids were born I found myself incorporating my photography into different art endeavors and from there it just blossomed.

Don't tell me what they did to you as though you had no choice. Tell me, isn't that your picture? Isn't that your voice.

I turned my pain into art and my hard work into a career. Helping myself has helped others. helping others has helped me.

The tensions are always based on financial resources. Something like film is very problematic because it is viewed as an art form and also as an industry with a pure commercial base.

Any new producer starting up is to get investors' confidence. Investors are still very very wary of anything to do with the arts world.

The tricky thing about being a writer, or about being any kind of artist, is that in addition to making art you also have to make a living.

He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own.

The streams which would otherwise diverge to fertilize a thousand meadows, must be directed into one deep narrow channel before they can turn a mill.

In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,--a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought.

I went to college at North Carolina School of the Arts and took a lot of singing classes, and it really is so connected to emotions.

Art simply can’t be stopped.

Art should take what is complex and render it simply. It takes a lot of skill, human understanding, stamina, courage, energy, and heart to do that.

Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you.

I think some of our most talented people are not going to pick the arts as a way that they're going to spend their lives.

I love history. I love art. I like to mix it all together, but in the end it somehow has to all make sense.

I'm inspired by looking at art, by looking at precedent. Looking is what you have to do if you want to make things, so you develop a critical eye.

timeliness is an enemy to art.

Art can do much, but this maxim's most sure/A weak or wounded brain admits no cure.

We have lost the art of public tenderness, these small gestures of wiping and washing; we have forgotten how abjectly the body welcomes a formal touch.