Art Quotes

If apple is the language of the future, then art must be the core.

The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties.

Art is a delivery system for worldviews.

(Art is) the residue of vision.

Art is standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the world, and letting ourselves be a conduit for passing energy.

How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.

Never try to convey your idea to the audience - it is a thankless and senseless task. Show them life, and they'll find within themselves the means to assess and appreciate it.

Art is the communication of ecstasy.

Where the material ends, art begins.

Art should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don't think art is elite or mysterious.

All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist.

We do this for the art, not the adulation. I'd rather our music get liked and we get ignored. I don't want to be adored for anything other than the music.

The connoisseur might be defined as a laconic art historian, and the art historian as a loquacious connoisseur.

Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.

My paintings are only the ashes of my art

Art should never be sociological; it has got to be timeless. It's got to be your vision and how you can represent the world you see.

The disco sound, you must see, is not art or anything so serious.

I know what I like—I like art—and I like what I know.

The Taj Mahal appears like a perfect pearl on an azure ground. The effect is such I have never experienced from any work of art.

The true contemplative is one who has discovered the art of finding leisure even in the midst of his work, by working with such a spirit of detachment and recollection that even his work is a prayer

Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.

I'm for turning off the tube and turning down the light, cause I'm for nothing else but me and you tonight.

And therefore those skilled in war bring the enemy to the field of battle and are not brought there by him.

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despite the conventional in anything, even the arts. I paint canvasses on the floor and drove one art teacher out of his mind. But that's just the way I paint best.

Science explains the world, but only Art can reconcile us to it.

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

The idea becomes a machine that makes the art.

Sculpture is an art of the open air... I would rather have a piece of my sculpture put in a landscape, almost any landscape, than in, or on, the most beautiful building I know.

It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.

A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.

Art comes after the fact, as a witness to certain things that have happened.

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings

I do not think making art alone makes it any better than making it with a team of people.

If we believe something does not exist unless we measure it, then we put aside: love, feeling, intuition, art and philosophy.

The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique.

Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn't bore.

When it's cold, water freezes into ice; when it's warm, ice melts into water. Similarly, when you are confused, essence freezes into mind; when you are enlightened, mind melts into essence.

My advice to those who which to learn the art of scientific prophesy is not to rely on abstract reason, but to decipher the secret language of Nature from Nature's documents: the facts of experience.

What we call art would seem to be specialist artifacts for enhancing human perception.

Central heating, French rubber goods and cookbooks are three amazing proofs of man's ingenuity in transforming necessity into art, and, of these, cookbooks are perhaps most lastingly delightful.

Clothing is . . . an exercise in memory. It makes me explore the past: how did I feel when I wore that. They are like signposts in the search for the past.

The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.

Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.

Art that imposes conditions - human or otherwise - on the receiver for its appreciation in my eyes constitutes aesthetic fascism.

The cinema occupies an important place in the overall development of art and literature.

Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people.

Art shouldn't be locked away in galleries and libraries and books. Art should be for everybody and not just art buffs, historians and so-called experts.

That celebrated marriage of science and art, photography, seemed at the time to join together how we look at the world, art, with how we were coming to know it, science.