Art Quotes

I'm sure that the camera is part of European art.

We do have to be a witness to our art.

I am not God. But I can only do my role here on this planet. The role I feel I was given since I was a kid was to be making art and I only wanted to give and I never let money be my God.

I went to art high school and thought I'd be a painter. Unfortunately I didn't finish high school, but that's always been part of my work.

The Academy Awards are passed out on Sunday. It's voted by members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Or as I call them, 50 shades of white.

I'm interested in how artists and writers do this, using art as therapy. Escaping into the worlds we create. We're all victims and few of us are truly free.

Cigarettes are pretty much my worst vice, and I even stopped smoking for 20 years. I spend most of my free time with my family and working on art.

Where in the wide history of the world do we find art created by the excessively wealthy, powerful, or educated?

Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference.

Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.

I'm a massive fan of Brit Art in general and Damien Hirst in particular. I think he's an absolute genius and should be celebrated in every way.

What-e're thou art, Act well thy part.

If you, my fellow copywriters or art directors, want to win the award, devote your genius to making the cash register ring.

I feel like really thinking about art and really appreciating it and learning the language of it just makes you more of a connoisseur. I believe that.

I have a really analytical approach to art. And the whole idea that you can't analyze what makes a joke funny...I do not agree with that at all.

Obviously, I never had to sketch anything out. To me, that was the appeal of working with clip art, working digitally. You make it and it's done.

I'm interested in the structure of art and how it works. And the content is also interesting, but I don't want to keep the same structure and just plug in new content every week.

The beauty of reality-based art - art underwritten by reality hunger - is that it's perfectly situated between life itself and (unattainable) "life as art".

Photography is a unique art that allows people to go back, not only to rediscover themselves but also to get something in print for the first time.

Art has to be reflective of our society.

Can poetry be a form of social change? I don't know the answer to that. I do think art can have a social impact even if it may be difficult to see the effects of that impact, to assess or measure it.

Acting is somewhat mysteriously taught. There are so many different methods and systems and processes for teaching acting because it will always be an elusive art-form.

So for years I kept mum about my passion for needle arts.

Art never lies, I believe.

Actors always want you to believe something else even though that's the truth and to do that well it's almost a dying art.

I think an art collection is a lot like a diary. Your taste evolves with time. I try to never sell anything, because its part of my journey.

I have a passion for modern and contemporary art.

Jean Valentine and Jane Cooper were my professors at Sarah Lawrence College - and they were uncompromised in their art. They gave me models of how to live one's life as a poet.

Visual media is the dominant art form in our present day culture, whereas poetry is, at best, a proxy. Yet poetry and film are both "dream factories."

I'm a true believer in not forcing anything. I hate forced art, forced anything.

Art that I like the most is born out of free association. I try to let my mind open up and see what comes out.

Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.

Pretending to care what men think is an art. It takes moments to learn, but lifetimes to master. I'd like to believe I'm an expert.

I went to a theater arts school, so I'm interested in many different projects, whether it be film, television or even live theater. I'm a performer. That's what I do. That's what I want to do.

Scapegrace leaped up. “I am the Killer Supreme! I make murder into an art form!” Skulduggery hit him again and Scapegrace did a little twirl before falling.

I love the art of filmmaking very much in all aspects.

Whether or not anyone could have done it is not what's important. What is important is whether or not anyone would have done it.

No matter how much utter disdain I have for the work of a particular artist, I would still rather that he had created those works than hadn't

Abstraction is an exercise in a pre-assured failure. It is a futile attempt to communicate the non-communicable

No matter how substandard you feel your skill or talent may be, If you never produce your art, the world will always remain deprived of it.

The art of a news reporter is to learn how to lull a victim, because all good reporters are confidence tricksters in embryo.

When real work happens and that's when real art happens.

What are you doing with the child?" I inquired cautiously. "I'm teachin' young James here the fine art of not pissing on his feet," he explained.

The first sign on a declining civilization is a decline in the arts.

A self is a frightening thing to waste, it's the lens through which one's whole life is viewed, and few people are willing to part with it, in death, or even imaginatively, in art.

Nothing reveals more about the inner life of a people than their arts.

Art cannot be looked at as an elite, sacred event anymore. It has to be embraced as an accessible, popular form, which is what I believe theater is at its roots.

When you're a freelance director, you are hired to create the art, and it kind of stops there.

I have always been a nomad and I have mastered the art of packing! I always say: pack lightly, live lightly.

Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.