Art Quotes

Through the last few decades it [the art object] has been ripped off the wall and twisted through every conceivable permutation, yet back to the wall it insists on going.

Authorship is, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, an infamy, a pastime, a day-labor, a handicraft, an art, a science, a virtue.

Art has to offer something other than stylized despair.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

I'm not a nice girl; I'm a photographer. (On being told by a Federal Art Project official, after she photographed the Bowery, that a nice girl should not go into such neighborhoods )

I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value?

Art has this long history, predating even language, of expressing nonverbal information.

They self-inflict punishment on their own broken lives, put their faith in their possessions, in their jobs, or their wives.

Where´s my leadin´ lady? Let me try this new love scene on you, baby.

Artists are not your art monkeys. They are your collaborators. They should be given all due consideration to follow their journey.

I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art) is never really finished; it is abandoned.

We are...a Divine work of art, something that God is making...something with which He will not be satisfied until it has a certain character.

When you really get technique... there is no strength that will stop you.

I play drums and guitar, I snowboard, I do martial arts and acrobatics. I go to the movies every Friday.

Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.

All art intuitively apprehends coming changes in the collective unconsciousness.

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

I may not be much good at most things, but if I didnt have the pleasure of planning and installing shows, and doing it better than anyone else, I would have stopped buying art many years ago.

Creative Arts raise a person to another level of consciousness as if you could imagine life before words.

I think liberal art faculties at major universities have views that are not very sound, at least on public policy issues - they may know a lot of French however.

Wanting to become stronger than everybody else has no meaning.

In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.

I am for an art of things lost or thrown away. . . I am for an art that one smokes like a cigarette. . . I am for an art that flutters like a flag.

Sometimes the art pieces I gravitate toward speak to me in terms of narrative, at other times they speak to me in terms of mood.

Art solves nothing, either for the artist himself or for those who receive his art.

Detail is the heart of realism, and the fatty degeneration of art.

Develop a mailing list... anyone who comes through your studio or meets you at art shows or anywhere. It's the power of permission-based marketing. Email your latest work to the list, every month.

Artists are always good for conversation, so long as you want to talk about their art.

Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.

An authentic and ingenious account of the ingeniously counterfeit in art and in life.

The greatest productions of art, whether painting, music, sculpture or poetry, have invariably this quality-something approaching the work of God.

The power of art can break the shackles that bind and divide human beings.

Fame, what you like is in the Limo. Fame, what you get is no tomorrow.

The desire to be loved is really death when it comes to art.

This is what has to be remembered about the law: Beneath that cold, harsh, impersonal exterior there beats a cold, harsh, impersonal heart.

I didn’t see any difference between being a photographer or being an artist. I didn’t make those boundaries. If someone wants to think it’s art, that’s great, but I’ll let history decide.

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.

I don't like differentiating between art and commercial cinema.

One wants to think that - and this is really a stupid thought - that through your art or whatever you do as an actor you can actually affect someone else's lives and thoughts or whatever.

The arts, like language, emerged spontaneously and universally in similar forms across cultures, employing imaginative and intellectual capacities that had clear survival value.

My work is all about creating new paths for thinking about the possibilities inherent in all art; another world is possible!

I was very sickly as a kid and had a lot of allergies, so martial arts gave me the chance to feel strong.

The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.

I kind of wonder if creativity is all morphing into one big thing that's not even art, but something universal and bigger.

Immodest and attractive is easy. Modest and repulsive is easy too. But modest and attractive is an art form.

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

Sleep, to the homeless thou art home; the friendless find in thee a friend

In every domain of art, a work that corresponds to the need of its day carries a message of social and cultural value. It is the artist who crystallizes his age ... who fixes his time in history.

I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.

Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.