Art Quotes

I was brought up Catholic, and I felt the power of art from a very young age - seeing the brutality of all those images of flayed apostles and tortured saints was a pretty strong introduction.

I went to college as a theater major. But after about three weeks of that, I changed to the school of fine arts as a painter.

It's only an interim trip. I love the music, but it's really giving me a way in which I can comfortably explore my art.

I think that's why art prevails: because it helps people in a fairly intangible, magical way feel more connected to each other.

Nothing helps an artist's career more than a little death and obscurity.

Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art.

Poetry speaks most effectively and inclusively (whether in free or formal verse) when it recognizes its connection - without apology - to its musical and ritualistic origins.

The key to attempting to create art in some aspect is also knowing that it will turn some people off.

If you're wandering the streets, talking in gibberish, nobody ever asks you to change anything about your art because there's no context for people to look at what you do.

It's true that there are people who live the idea of being an artist, as opposed to the idea of making art.

I'm always hiding the books in my closet, and my art's always turned upside down in my drawer.

The emotional brain is highly attuned to symbolic meanings and to the mode Freud called the 'primary process' - the messages of metaphor, story, myth, the arts.

What is more natural in a democratic age than that we should begin to measure the stature of a work of art-especially of a painting-by how widely and how well it is reproduced?

A lot of people who get into any art form have some form of mental..something in their head which is unstable

We will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that's much closer to art and literature than any science.

Ive been taking martial arts for a long time. I started with tae kwon do, and then I started taking karate and mixed martial arts.

If you're making art, you are not separate from your brand.

For me, being in front of a camera is a matter of practicing and refining your art. I think, if you're telling a story worth telling, it's worth investing the time into developing.

Give honour unto Luke Evangelist; For he it was (the aged legends say) Who first taught Art to fold her hands and pray.

I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, music, but there really isn't hip-hop film. So I was trying to do that.

Writers are idiots with Underwoods.

I hate all that woozy political and psychotherapeutic crap applied to books and art.

Art editors and critics - people like me - have become a courtier class.

It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh.

The only thing approaching art in a movie is the script.

To the artist, all problems of art appear uniquely personal. Well, that's understandable enough, given that not many other activities routinely call one's basic self-worth into question.

Uncertainty is the essential, inevitable and all-pervasive companion to your desire to make art

Something about making art has to do with overcoming things, giving us a clear opportunity for doing things in ways we have always known we should do them.

The hardest part of art-making is living your life in such a way that your work gets done-over and over-and that means, among other things, finding a host of practices that are just plain useful.

Poetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings.

Anyone having to do with medicine will have looked at Frank Netters art work... I decided I would make him my model... getting my degree in medical illustration and then going on to medical school.

I'm not sure that an art career would have any benefit for me; I'm not sure it's what I want. I don't think I want to be a designer-rock artist.

If I put faith in medication, if I can smile a crooked smile, if I can talk on television, if I can walk an empty mile.

Illusion I will be, for I've never been a sinner.

Oooh, fashion, we are the goon squad and were coming to town, beep beep.

It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.

I've collected Andy Warhol art for years now I have two portraits of myself done by Steve Kaufman.

There was an old brochure for the American Academy of Dramatic Arts with a quote from Robert Redford or someone, that said, "You're only as good as you dare to be bad."

I think making any art requires a certain degree of high anxiety and total abandon.

Fashion goes beyond fabric; it is the attempt to manifest art on a breathing canvas. I am very excited to collaborate with the artistic community as we celebrate this diversity of creative vision.

I don't like watching people work if they're making art.

It's easy to say "This year in art sucked." After all, about 85 percent of all shows of contemporary art are bad. But 85 percent of all art made in the Renaissance was bad.

The realm of classical music is so vast - not only in terms of style but of era, age and the purposes for which it was composed - it is an enormous art form.

We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.

Entertainment provides relief. Art provokes engagement.

Ideally, each piece of art's its own unique object, and its evaluation's always present-tense.

As a model you have to convey something with one look - and actors will have a scene and they can sort of do it, but models have to convey what photographers want. It's a bit of an art.

All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.

People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.

I'm convinced that technology and art go together - and always have, for centuries.