Art Quotes

Pain is not a conduit to art or joy

People enquire as to the craft behind our art and we reply by making references to a patently childish notion.

Y a-t-il plus belle parodie de l'éthique de la valeur que de se soumettre avec toute l'intransigeance de la vertu aux données du hasard ou à l'absurdité d'une règle?

The ultimate politeness in art consists of speaking only to those who are able to uncover and measure its relationships. Anything else is symbolic, and symbolism is merely transcendental imagery.

The only work of art which succeeds is that which fails.

Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you.

Logic is the art of convincing us some truth.

There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium!

In the last 20 years of collecting contemporary African art, I have been bombarded by incredible shapes and colors that I now want to translate into clothes.

Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters.

Fine and delicate taste is the fruit of education and experience.

Better gray than garishness.

Art without knowledge is nothing!

Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the of it is nothing other than the sense you choose.

Realism and art cannot live together.

Journalism encourages haste ... and haste is the enemy of art.

I want to be an art-hero - I want to change the form of the novel.

There is no best anything in art.

In terms of legend, people do have a need, but I think you can't have a legend without the work or the art that comes before it.

The moment we live in is a great time to make art. We have different technologies to play with, and we're left with the opportunity to focus on our work.

Art helped give me confidence.

I enjoy all mediums, and I have to say, music is the medium that first made me understand how powerful art could be.

I never graduated, but I was kind of floating between journalism and art, because neither one wanted to claim me, as a cartoonist.

Prepared and fast foods have given us the time and freedom to see cooking as an art form - a form of creative expression.

My mother is an artist, and I have a strong visual sense. I almost always choose the cover art for my books.

Art dealing is when you're doing it as a business.

Overall, I think any opportunity to expose people to art on a mass level - to have some kid in Oklahoma say to his mother, "I want to be an artist" - is a good thing.

Part of my agenda has been to support art that engages life with people.

What I hope is I'll eventually be seen as an actual individual, not as some abstraction - an art dealer running a museum.

Art, film, fashion, music are all going on and interacting simultaneously. And L.A. is very receptive to that fusion.

Celebrity has become, for better or worse, an art form. An artist can use themselves as a medium to become a celebrity as a walking work of art.

Habitual texters may not only cheat their existing relationships, they can also limit their ability to form future ones since they don't get to practice the art of interpreting nonverbal visual cues.

Everybody has a direct view of the person "behind" the art, so there is going to be a certain amount of awareness of who is making songs. But I like paintings where you can see the brush-strokes.

I usually think of art as having a measurable content of nourishment, whether factual or emotional or whatever, and I try to make sure that whatever I do has as much nourishment as I can muster.

A great artist can change society because of the entertaining and mesmerizing quality of his or her art.

I went to a little liberal-arts college in Missouri called Truman State University.

Art should look like art, trees and flowers and people, not weird shapes and splotches of color all smeared together.

Headline writing is an art form.

As art reveals the artist more than the world, so you see yourself and what you are not in the mirror of another culture.

We go for our own reality. I remember some of our guys saying it is way harder to make stylized art directed explosions of jade rather than a regular explosion of shrapnel.

As I said, i'm very quiet, i don't go around saying "I'm awesome!" but when I brought in my portfolio into DreamWorks and showed them what I could do, my art style is a lot wilder than I am.

A little knowledge can go a long way.

I'm always trying to bring unusual content to a different audience - a non-art-world audience.

I've always been a fan of reading art catalogues from exhibitions, and plays, and I've worked with a surrealist German playwright, Heiner Müller.

I think life is the most important thing and you have to live that first and then you're art comes second.

My plan was to never get married. I was going to be an art monster instead.

When there were financial difficulties they still managed to provide us with music and art lessons.

When art wins, everyone wins.

There are many, many art worlds. Art contains multitudes.

Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isn't any good. But everyone has a different opinion about which 85 percent is bad. That in turn creates fantastically unstable interplay and argument.