Art Quotes

Without Unceasing Practice nothing can be done. Practice is Art. If you leave off you are lost.

Perspective is an Art Mathematical which demonstrates the manner and properties of all radiations direct, broken and reflected.

Everything in life goes back to the basics.

Concentrate your energy and hoard your strength.

I wanted to make pictures that felt natural, that felt like seeing, that didn’t feel like taking something in the world and making a piece of art out of it.

The world is full of Kings and Queens, Who blind your eyes and steal your dreams.

I'm glad I am crazy, it keeps me trying. I despise trendies, I know they're lying.

Art will never come except from some small disregarded corner where an isolated and inspired man is studying the mysteries of nature.

The art of music is so deep and profound that to approach it very seriously only is not enough. One must approach music with a serious rigor and, at the same time, with a great, affectionate joy.

When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.

I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.

People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it.

But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live.

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.

Mine is the art of inspiring people to turn themselves inside out, transform their suffering into art, their art into awareness and their awareness into action

Art being so much greater than ourselves, it will not give up once it has taken hold.

Art is the colors and textures of your imagination.

We're not choosing the art, the art is choosing us. The pieces are choosing the walls where they hang.

What I have in mind is that art may be bad, good or indifferent, but, whatever adjective is used, we must call it art, and bad art is still art in the same way that a bad emotion is still an emotion.

The humble man makes room for progress; the proud man believes he is already there.

I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel.

Art alone develops weaklings, science alone, monsters. Somewhere, somehow, we must combine the two.

My opinion of art is that a man should have love for it, because my idea is that he paints from his heart and mind.

I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.

What makes a tight circle or a tight little square box more of an intellectual statement than something done emotionally, I don't know. Art is an essence, a center.

A work of art comes only from inside a human being.

The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.

We need to think about encryption not as this sort of arcane, black art. It's a basic protection.

The point of art is not simply to express ourselves, but to create an external, concrete form in which the soul of our lives can be evoked and contained.

Even Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci were entertainers. In that way, I am an entertainer and want to make art that is fun.

Each one of us is God's special work of art. Through us, He teaches and inspires, delights and encourages, informs and uplifts all those who view our lives.

All art (after Duchamp) is conceptual (in nature) because art only exists conceptually.

Intimacy is a difficult art.

Attack is the secret of defense; defense is the planning of an attack.

In a moment of grace, we can grasp eternity in the palm of our hand. This is the gift given to creative individuals who can identify with the mysteries of life through art.

No one has the right to beat you.

A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.

Realism is something we practice when we aren't feeling very well. When we don't feel up to the extra effort.

Tell me what company thou keepest and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Chess is the art of analysis.

Art has nothing to do with taste. Art is not there to be tasted

I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.

I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

Art is not about understanding, it’s about experience.

The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb.

Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art.

Art is not about something, Art is something

Should #‎ graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that