The Art Quotes

I do think that drugs and alcohol have been glorified and exoticized in such a way that it gets into the art world.

The art of living is to enjoy what we can see and not complain about what remains in the dark.

Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.

Between the marketplace and government there exists all of that which makes life worth living-family life, spiritual life, the art and culture that make our spirits soar.

One can compare art education to the solid foundation for a house - once it's built properly, it will hold any shape or form you will place on it.

Art Education is as important for a realist artist as an Alphabet is to learn a language.

I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Nations in their great ages have not been great in art or science, but in art and science.

Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.

The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.

Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction.

Art is not a mirror but a hammer.

The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.

The important thing about Paris is not so much that one sees exciting work, but one meets people who feel that art is worth living completely for. This whole atmosphere is very good for work.

Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.

We were doing performance art as far back as 1965, just not calling it that.

Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.

Great art comes from great artists. There’s a bunch of people that are hurt that still couldn’t have made the album that was super-polarizing and redefined the sound of radio.

Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

Art is the last thing I'm worried about when I'm writing a song. As far as I'm concerned, art is just short for 'Arthur.'

The art market is global now, and theres becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art.

Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words.

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable perception into feeling.

The timelessness of art is its capacity to represent the transformation of endless becoming into being.

I always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.

Only art and science make us suspect the existence of life to a higher level, and maybe also instill hope thereof.

I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.

Stealing things is a glorious occupation, particularly in the art world.

Art is a great means of self-discovery. One of the things that appealed to me in the beginning was that it was a great way to get girlfriends.

Is photography an art? There is no point in trying to find out if it is an art. Art is old-fashioned. We need something else.

Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.

The big art is our life.

Art is a shadow of Divine perfection.

...in our time art is encrusted with a noisy, opaque, logorrhea of theory that prevents a work from coming into direct, media free, non-interpreted contact with its viewer (its reader, its listener)

Art is like turning corners, one never knows what is around the corner until one has made the turn.

The art of war is to gain time when your strength is inferior.

Everyone in those days expected that art students were wild, licentious characters. We didn't know how to be, but we sure were anxious to learn.

Art is lies that tell the truth.

I consider a work of art as a product of calculations, calculations that are frequently unknown to the author himself.

Art is a lie that makes us realise truth ... that is given us to understand.

If I knew what the meaning of art was, I wouldn't tell you.

Art is alive because it is mortal.

We cleave to the past too much in Germany. All of our German art is too bogged down in the conventional... I think more highly of a free person who consciously puts convention aside.

I always think that art is one of the most wonderful exciting curious ways to learn. I have no worries or apologies about art being used as a teaching medium.

But, o, photography! as no art is,Faithful and disappointing! That recordsDull days as dull, and hold-it smiles as frauds,And will not censor blemishes,Like washing-lines, and Hall's-Distemper boards

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

All art is at once surface and symbol.

Prior art is as effective as US soldiers in Iraq: They control the ground they stand on, and nothing more. I used to say Vietnam, but, well, you know.