The Art Quotes

If you study a great work of art, you'll probably find the artist was a kind of genius. And geniuses are different to you and me.

There's no pressure in baseball. Pressure is when the doctor is getting ready to cut you, take your heart out, and put it on a table.

I think you've got to get out whatever's hurting you through your art, so it doesn't twist you up inside.

Europeans invented art for the last 300 years, and the Americans kind of killed it with a big, huge rock.

As a kid, I was heavily into martial arts and wanted to be the next Jean-Claude Van Damme.

In the end, it doesn't really matter what you paint. It's all just a routine to connect yourself finally with other people.

I admire the abstract expressionists and pop artists so right now I'm referencing American '60s art and at the same time referencing Japanese manga culture.

I know your breed; all your fine officials debauch the younger girls who are afraid to lose their jobs: that's as old as Washington.

Whether it is photography, assemblage art or filmmaking, my work is to see beneath the surface.

Flawed characters... a ticking clock... morally questionable acts on all sides... moody, evocative art... oh yeah, this the stuff crime noir fans love!

I didn't have any interest in traditional art.

Art, when destroyed can never be replaced, yet history repeats itself.

Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value.

If a person is confident enough in the way they feel, whether it's an art form or whether it's just in life, it comes off---you don't have anything to prove; you can just be who you are.

The Master said, I set my heart on the Way, base myself on virtue, lean upon benevolence for support and take my recreation in the arts.

I’m not as cool as you think I think I might be – and the most important things in my life are God, love and peace. Everything else is b.s. And art’s kind of important, too.

As an allegorical art, then, photography would represent our desire to fix the transitory, the ephemeral, in a stable and stabilizing image.

I believe martial arts is always evolving and mixed martials arts is the top of the food chain.

Art has definitely influenced how I think of design, both as individual items and as a body of work.

Art always has something of the unconscious about it.

I love art. It is uplifting.

Stay in the present. And that's not a glib answer. The way to stay in the present is to have a love for what you're doing and a vitality and a sense of well-being that is generated by your art.

Poetic effect is the peculiar effect of an utterance which achieves most of its relevance through a wide array of weak implicatures.

There is art in taking time to appreciate the clean wash of the mind's silence.

If you are a writer or any kind of artist, if you change something as fundamental as where you live - the way you live - then I think you change the very instrument that is trying to make the art

Face it, you hate every single boy on the face of the Earth!" "That's not TRUE, I just hate all these obnoxious, extroverted, pseudo-bohemian art-school losers

If you trusted that your art was going to support your life, how would you live?

The Art of Elysium is a program I've volunteered with for close to ten years, and I work with Unicef and Young Storytellers. My passion is really working with children since they are the future.

There hasn't been anything real since grunge. That was the last movement led by music or an art form.

[There is] a breed of fashion models

I'll ruin everything you are, I'll give you television.

Art talk is punk. Let the movie do your speaking for you.

Kitsch is: a species of beauty, which, as it is florid and superficial, pleases at first; but soon palls upon the taste, and is rejected with disdain, at least rated at much lower value.

I'm very aware of how much movies, literature and art affect culture. They are a reflection of the world around us and they are also a means by which we engage with the world around us.

At its best, cinema does retain a remarkable ability to speak to people of every age, from every background, and in ways that almost any other art form in popular culture struggles to compete with.

It's a mistake to ask a work of art to be all things to all people.

You can't understand how strange it was to be a sculptor who exhibited photographs. (On exhibitions of his earthworks and land art pieces.)

I don't want to be in an art bubble.

All the stars that never were are parking cars and pumping gas.

The most important person is the audience and the composer. The rest of us - and even the composer is a servant to the audience. And of course, the audience is a servant to the higher art.

As I watched him on the stage, my hands were clinched in fists of rage. No angel born in hell, could break that Satan's spell.

We should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art.

Most artists are surrealists. ... always dreaming something and then they paint it.

Travel, trouble, music, art, a kiss, a frock, a rhyme -- I never said they feed my heart, but still they pass my time.

Alltami (n.) The ancient art of being able to balance the hot and cold shower taps.

It is not enough to take this weapon out of the hands of soldiers. It must be put into the hands of those who will know how to strip its military casing and adapt it to the arts of peace.

I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.

One does not marry art. One ravishes it.

Once they witnessed one of his painting sold at auction for $100,000. And asked how you do it, he said, 'I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.'

Nothing in art should seem accidental, not even movement