Art Quotes

Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world.

All truly great art is propaganda.

When you're at dinner with somebody and they are on their phone. I think there's that lost art of conversation and so I just always try to keep my phone far away from me when I'm with people.

I don't know if street art ever really works indoors. If you domesticate an animal, it goes from being wild and free to sterile, fat and sleepy. So maybe the art should stay outside.

Only an individual can imagine, invent, or create. The whole audience of art is an audience of individuals.

Suffering for your art is most definitely overrated but I do get a certain, I don't know, satisfaction from being able to deal with my paranoia and insecurity.

Art is not an object, but a trigger for experience.

All martial art is simply an honest expression of one's body — with a lot of deception in between.

I've always thought of the book as a visual art form, and it should represent a single artistic idea, which it does if you write your own material.

In every work of art, the artist himself is present.

Sometimes my art is just an illusion - or is it?

All art is autobiographical. You can only create what you are.

Man is simply playing by nature's rules,and art is man's attempt to imitate the beauty of the Creator's hand

The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.

All art is contemporary, if it's alive, and if it's not alive, what's the point of it?

The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.

The personality is a work of art.

For goodness sakes, beware of curls… It is a great art to do them so that the girls not only look modern - but do not suddenly look very vulgar.

Every work of art is a trick by which the artist manipulates appearances.

If you worry about how good the art is, you're never going to make your own art.

Art is always an energy exchange.

You are both a work of art and an artist at work.

All great art and literature is propaganda.

All art is propaganda.

All art is propaganda; on the other hand, not all propaganda is art.

So, good news/bad news: good news that I'm progressing; bad news that life is short and art is long.

Art-making is just another part of the consciousness industry.

Art is art when it is appreciated by someone.

Great art can only be created out of love.

This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother.

I understand abstract art as an attempt to feed imagination with a world built through the basic sensations of the eyes.

Art is changing. Again. Here. Now. Opportunities to witness this are rare, so attend and observe.

Wherever you are, be there. Lifestyle is not something we do; it is something we experience. And until we learn to be there, we will never master the art of living well.

Connoisseurs think the art is already done.

As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure.

Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.

The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.

Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object.

The power of art is the power of truth.

Art is life, life is art - the question is what came first?

Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.

Art is a big question mark.

Art is the body's pronunciation of the soul.

Great art likes chains. The greatest artists have created art within bounds. Or else they have created their own chains.

Art and life go together. I have to have a life filled with experiences to make art, and I have to have art around me to live well.

Art, well good art at least, takes you to a place you go during the experience of it, and then after you experience it you are different.

Because watercolor actually moves on the paper, it is the most active of all mediums, almost a performance art.

What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

A bit of advice, don't copy nature too closely. Art is an abstraction; as you dream amid nature, extrapolate art from it, and concentrate on what you will create as a result.

Art is life, life is life, but to lead life artistically is the art of life.