Art Quotes

Learn not only the rules of art, but 'when' and 'how' to break them.

But every single damn thing matters! Only we don't realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don't realize that's a lie.

The art of the quoter is to know when to stop.

The division between art and deviousness and crime is sometimes as thin as a cigarette paper.

Repetition is the death of art.

There's a real power in collaboration. I've found that in collaborating while making art, it takes you to a place that you wouldn't necessarily have the confidence to go on your own.

I'm only lookin' for a fantasy, an interlude from reality.

You went to Woodstock and all that trash, your generation is fading fast.

Art doesn't feed me or fill the void when I am not working. If I haven't worked for six months, I can't paint.

Sometimes there are painters or very famous artists who start to become artists after they are dead because an audience or a public know about their art after they die.

The poetic function is the set towards the message itself, focus on the message for its own sake which by promoting the palpability of signs, deepens the fundamental dichotomy of signs and objects.

Wanting an honest opinion about my art from someone whose opinion I respect makes me feel vulnerable. It's a great space to be in.

I'll walk through fire to do what I do because the movie business, when it's right, is the coolest art form ever invented.

In Europe, people in the arts are considered part of the intelligentsia; they are considered part of the elite

I deplore the tendency, in some institutions, to go directly toward training for a trade or profession or something and ignoring the liberal arts. It is the foundation of education.

Where there's liberty, art succeeds.

I remain California-bound

I usually never walk by a microphone.

Art Monk was an example for Jerry Rice. That's what Jerry always told me.

It's taken folk a while to come around, hasn't it? Even the boys in the band weren't too sure about the whole art thing. They just wanted me to concentrate on the music. But they respect it now.

It's so hard to be a mother and to also want to practice your art.

Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty.

One of my goals is to create more art to put out there in the world.

You have to be at the forefront of culture to create art, which they call "product," and Hollywood is not. It's this very old business model, which I think is dying in a lot of ways.

Culture is defined, really, by the artists who record what the everyday experience is like and then translate it to a common piece of art that all people can respond and relate to.

Without art there is no hope.

The arts community still has a long lasting cynicism of the importance, or the artistic value, of comedy. Comedy is just farting about for money.

A number of artists have done things with Mickey Mouse - including Claes Oldenburg and Andy Warhol. He's such an American symbol, and such an anti-art symbol.

No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple. In certain cultures, an overall symmetry may conceal the complexity of the work at first glance.

...if I can do it, it's not art.

I'll be honest, I worry sometimes about what I've done. I have tied my whole person to my art and, whatever it takes to get that hook, I will go there and do it.

I'm not intelligent enough to be a doctor, and kind of hands down you can't argue with the worth of that. But I don't really have an opinion about the worth of making art.

Agreeing on the "why" takes all the romance out of everything, takes all the seduction. Seduction used to be an art. Now of course it's brutish and it's predatory and it's bad.

A map is the dead body of where you've been. A map is the unborn baby of where you're going. There are no maps. Maps are pictures of what isn't.

The Art Snob will stand back from a picture at some distance, his head cocked slightly to one side

The work of art, though bound by its genetic markings and indelible fingerprints, is boundless in the infinite elaborations of its destiny, and therefore in the range of its interpretations.

Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form.

Art can only be taught by artists.

If a nonartist teaches a subject called art, it is nonart.

As a matter of history great developments in art have often been remarkably separate from religious motivation and use.

Photography is art when it's used by an artist.

That's something lacking in a lot of modern-day families - just talking. It's almost a lost art form.

I'm making the art for me first. I'm making it because these are the pictures I want to see. I'm making pictures that don't yet exist.

I put all of my time into art because I couldn't go back to Jersey and work at Starbucks.

Spend more time in a Jiu Jitsu gi than in street clothes.

Be sure, either that thou art stronger than thine enemy, or that thou hast a swifter pair of heels.

Britain cannot compete with China or Taiwan on price; we compete on skills, on arts and culture.

I’m more concerned about helping humanity through my art

In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.

In a successful picture book, you always want the voice of the text to match the voice of the art; so that it seems as if the same person writing is the one illustrating and vice versa.