The Art Quotes

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavour. The beauty endures. A work of art lives...through the generations and centuries.

All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up.

The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life.

In the 1970s when I started in the art world, no self-respecting artist would have stood in line to try to get on a television show. It never would have happened.

To me, nothing in the art world is neutral. The idea of 'disinterest' strikes me as boring, dishonest, dubious, and uninteresting.

The art of living is simply getting up after you've been knocked down.

Art is based on a strong sentiment of religion,--on a profound and mighty earnestness; hence it is so prone to co-operate with religion.

He who has art and science also has religion, but those who do not have them better have religion.

What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.

I also went to art school and learned to play a piano there, but I play by ear.

All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another, and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.

Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.

The science of psychotherapy is knowing what to say, the art is knowing when to say it. (36)

Art is about eliminating almost everything in order to focus on the thing that you need to talk about.

Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.

Darkness is a lot of what art is and certainly in our community a lot of it is people sort of wrestling with their demons.

All that is happening in art is part of a process of exploration and discovery. I hope to live for a few more years so that I can catch glimpses of the oncoming future.

The great art of writing is knowing when to stop.

Art is about freedom of expression, and should not be molded to fit any propaganda or lofty ideal.

The function of art is to free the spirit of man and to invigorate and enlarge his vision.

When Art becomes a Science it is no longer an Art.

Works of art are viewed by people. They are heard by people. They are felt by people. They are not just the fodder of a close-knit group of initiates. They are the soul food of all people.

I never really took a proper art class in college. I just started reading art magazines and going to galleries.

Art is more engaging that propaganda.

Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.

The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you.

Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to all.

Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist.

I think great art goes beyond the control of the artist. In some ways, art often makes itself and reveals things about that artist that maybe the artist is not fully conscious of.

I try to see interviewing as performance art, and just take it as it comes.

The world is a king, and like a king, desires flattery in return for favor; but true art is selfish and perverse — it will not submit to the mold of flattery.

But perhaps my art is the art of a lunatic, I thought, mere glittering quicksilver, a blue soul breaking in upon my pictures.

There is a difference between art and life and that difference is readability.

I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another.

I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary.

Art is as natural as sunshine and as vital as nourishment.

The spirit of love and good art have equal beauty

We need to remind ourselves that contemporary art is first of all a form of conceptual gymnastics, in which we learn to coexist with what we don't understand.

The ultimate function of art is to make men do what they want to do, as it is to make them recognize what they know.

In every landscape should reside jewels of abstract art waiting to be discovered.

Art is man's refuge from adversity.

I have a company that does design and animation, so obviously graffiti is definitely an intricate part of what we admire and respect in the art world.

I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.

Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

I'd much rather go to a Banksy art show than a Moby art show. My art is painfully naive.

African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations.

Art is the more spiritual side of education that really does saves lives and makes amazing individuals.

paraphrasing.."Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality.

A language not based on universal symbols or sensations is gibberish, a pitfall of modern art, no longer modern.

Much modern art is, at first sight, unnerving... in the contemporary world, we have come to expect instant response and immediate understanding.