The Art Quotes
Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.
Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.
Coping with rejection is an important skill to learn and understand when navigating the Art World. Rejection and disinterest is the rule, not the exception.
Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a few art history books.
Real photography is a wonderfully inclusive, democratic medium, whereas art photography is more often a private pursuit by conmen.
Nothing in Art is achieved by will alone. It is achieved by docilely submitting to the subconscious.
The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.
Abstract art is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes.
Like adverts, today's works of art aim to create a brand, even if they have no product to sell except themselves.
Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.
Art is not in some far-off place. A work of Art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability
I'm trying to create flesh architecture. I aim to get a sculptural feel for groups of bodies, as well as create performance art.
Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil of pointless consciousness stretched over a gulf of mystery.
The instinct that pulls us toward art is the impulse to evolve, to learn, to heighten and elevate our consciousness. The Ego hates this. Because the more awake we become, the less we need the Ego.
One who has few must prepare against the enemy; one who has many makes the enemy prepare against him.
If a work of art is a projection of feeling, its kinship with organic nature will emerge, no matter through how many transformations, logically and inevitably.
The art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its potency.
Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul.
Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions.
Efforts to revive the art principles of the past at best produce works of art that resemble a stillborn child.
Art is one of the dirtiest words in our language; it's mucked up with all kinds of meanings. There's the art of plumbing; there's the art of almost anything that you can say.
You must in all Airs follow the strength, spirit, and disposition of the horse, and do nothing against nature; for art is but to set nature in order, and nothing else.
The Smithsonian museums are among this country's most endearing treasures and I look forward to helping maintain and enhance their coveted works of art.
To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving.
You have to give your art everything you can - I don't mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking, reading what poets have written other than their poetry.
Public art existed all along, but ecological art just naturally grew out of my thinking and writings in that area for years. I didn't get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination.
The more you think, the more you ruin things. Art has to come viscerally; otherwise, forget it.
I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
The more I look at most of the art movements, it's all occultism, when you get down to it. The Surrealists were openly talking about being magicians.
