The Art Quotes

I have to confess I'm not a huge comics fan in the wider sense of comics as an art form.

To make art you need to be inspired.

The world I feel, within the realm of art, is more genuine than the wrorld of matter. Artistic feeling is not tape measures, spectrographs, or flash camera lens.

Geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer.

Without artists, the order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish.

Art or talent, for an artist, is merely a means of applying his personal faculties to the ideas and the things of the period in which he lives.

I hope always to earn my living by my art without having ever deviated by even a hair's breadth from my principles... to please anyone or to sell more easily.

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it.

The most important quality of art and its aim is illusion; emotion, which is often obtained by certain sacrifices of poetic detail, is something else entirely and of an inferior order.

I'm a people person, very approachable. I go out every night, tons of functions. I love all facets of this industry... Music, film, TV, books, art. I love being around creative people.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

Originality, then, ultimately distinguishes art from craft. We may say, therefore, that it is the yardstick of artistic greatness or importance.

No one is so busy that he hasn't the time to dismantle a work of art.

Art in America has always been regarded as a luxury.

Each one of these bodies (art-works Arp made) certainly signifies something, but it is only once there is nothing left for me to change that I begin to look for its meaning, that I give it a name.

I did exhibitions with the Surrealists (in Paris, in 1929) because their attitude revolted against 'art' and their attitude toward life itself was wise, as was Dada's.

When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.

Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.

Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.

What is the spiritual purpose of the arts? It is to learn structure. Once an artist creates a true structure, then divine love can pour into it and make it a living thing of beauty.

Imitation of the art of earlier centuries, as that done by Picasso and Modigliani , is carried on not to perpetuate ancient values but to demonstrate that new aesthetic orders now prevail.

The art of clinical diagnosis lies in the ability to ask the right questions.

It's better sometimes when we don't get to touch our dreams.

The art of negotiation is perhaps what most deeply distinguishes man from the animals, and it is this art and this will to negotiate that has brought man forward, elevated him beyond the animals.

Politics is a fascinating game, because politics is government. It is the art of government.

If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

I wish I was better at art. I love some of the great artists of the 19th century and, compared to them, I just feel I lack this technique that they had. They have so much skill.

From the metaphysical point of view there is nothing that can touch the formless except the art of music which in itself is formless.

Life is full of its disappointments, and I suppose the art of being happy is to disguise them as illusions.

I have a feeling that in art the need to understand and the need to communicate are one.

There is no Sixth Commandment in art. The poet is entitled to lay his hands on whatever material he finds necessary for his work.

It's a terrific privilege to be able to see into somebody else's life.

I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.

When I put a green, it is not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the sky.

All that is not useful in a picture is detrimental. A work of art must be harmonious in its entirety; for superfluous details would, in the mind of the beholder, encroach upon the essential elements.

Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium.

I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.

But for harmony beautiful to contemplate, science would not be worth following.

A book should contain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by shipwrecked mariners, and not the art of navigation by those who have never been out of sight of land.

There are two classes of men called poets. The one cultivates life, the other art,... one satisfies hunger, the other gratifies the palate.

Nowadays the host does not admit you to his hearth, but has got the mason to build one for yourself somewhere in his alley, and hospitality is the art of keeping you at the greatest distance.

The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?

Why change the world? Change worlds!

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.

For the structure that we raise, Time is with materials filled; Our to-days and yesterdays Are the blocks with which we build.

Many have genius, but, wanting art, are forever dumb. The two must go together to form the great poet, painter, or sculptor.

In the elder days of art Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part, For the Gods are everywhere

Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.