The Art Quotes
The art of war is like the art of the courtesan; indeed they might be called sisters, since both are slaves of desperation.
. . . the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth.
The damnable thing about bad art is that the insincerity which lies at its roots is not perceived by the artist himself.
A lot of good and regular art gets made because of who you talk to. No one is immune to human contact and art is not made in a vacuum.
Art is recuperation from time. I lie back convalescing upon the prospect of a harvest already at hand.
The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.
Have we not all about us forms of a musical expression which we can take and purify and raise to the level of great art?.
Art is not to be found by touring to Egypt, China, or Peru; if you cannot find it at your own door, you will never find it.
I think rap definitely has its place in the art world. I think it is an art form. But, just like any art form, you can misuse it.
Beauty, which I admit to being in pursuit of, is an extremely suspect word among many in the art world. But I don't think you can get along without it. It's the confirmation of meaning in life.
The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else.
As we grow older, we realize just how limiting were our earlier conceptions. Art is something else. Art is fluid, transmutable, open-ended, never complete, and never perfect. Art is an event.
Critics are the products of their own times and biases and what they have to say about works of art is as transient and insubstantial as fashion.
I think art is about human existence. Almost by default I'm expressing my experiences as a human.
The pernicious influence of the prize and medal giving in art is so great that it should be stopped. History proves that juries in art have been generally wrong.
The dirty secret of art is you don't have to show people your bad writing. That's what we have the delete key for.
It is sometimes forgotten how much wit there is in certain works of abstract art. There is a certain point in undergoing anguish when one encounters the comic.
One of the most striking aspects of abstract art's appearance is her nakedness, an art stripped bare.
Art is an evolution of techniques and materials from past to present and we can't stop learning.
Performance art is really about the sociology of the artist, where ideas come from, and the confluence of those ideas.
My father was a painter and an anarchist, always getting in trouble for his performance art.
Art is sometimes likened to a mirror... an expression of universal human truth, executed with a degree of skill.
I think it's misleading to think that art is only there for escapism, only there for our dreams of being rich and f - king whoever we wanna f - k.
The water caught the Falselight glimmer like layers of shifting, translucent mirrors and formed split-second works of art in the air, but men cursed it anyway, because it made their heads wet.
Pain s the truth of art. Art is not a hobby or a pastime. It is the result of an internal battle royal, one between the quest for safety and the desire to matter.
Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
I'm simply saying that our deepest thoughts, desires and preoccupations manifest themselves in art, whether we intend them to or not. That's what art is for; it's not cerebral, it's emotional.
Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.
Play is the taproot from which original art springs. It is the raw stuff that the artist channels with all his learning and technique.
