The Art Quotes

If you had a large vase with a big crack down the middle of it, a Japanese art museum would put the vase on a pedestal and shine a spotlight on the crack!

All art is concerned with coming into being.

The making of one's life into art is, after all, the first duty and privilege of every man.

All art is a form of artifice.For in art there can be no prejudices.

Art is a protest against death.

I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908)

I feel that all good art is powerful and simple.

Art is all about becoming a name, a brand; it isn't based on talent or creativity.

Have little care that Life is brief, And less that Art is long. Success is in the silences Though Fame is in the song.

Warren Street was at the high end of the New Romantic scene. They were mostly college art students and people who knew top designers.

I feel like the movie is reminding people of who they are, which is what I think all great art does.

Art is form struggling to wake from the nightmare of nature.

The art of war in its highest point of view is policy.

My parents weren't artistic, but I was always surrounded by beautiful things. And Mexico is a country which has experienced thousands of years of art and culture.

We want Realism's wealth of experience and Symbolism's depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.

Art is an infinitely precious good, a draught both refreshing and cheering which restores the stomach and the mind to the natural equilibrium of the ideal.

Serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict.

Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and--prayer.

The art world was very small and the people got together at parties. There was less commercialism.

I don't see what else you can spend your money on... If you want to own things, art is a pretty good bet.

Songwriting as an art is a bit archaic now. Just writing a song is not good enough.

True art is the intermediary between man's ordinary nature and his higher potentialities.

One of the first obligations of art is to make all useful things beautiful.

In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression.

The message of great art is to disturb.

Art is nothing; it's a way.

Art is a profession, not a shrine.

Whether it's a street poster on a brick wall, a magazine cover on a newsstand, or animation on a movie screen - art is an effective means of communicating with large numbers of people.

perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.

art is not advocacy and advocacy is not art.

I wanted to go into art history. Acting fell into my lap when a neighbor took pictures of me and showed them to an agent.

I worked my way through art school as an auto mechanic, doing various stuff including sanding bodywork and using Bondo filler.

Art is about communication. Art that lasts through the ages works symbolically. It triggers feelings and experiences that we've all had.

Fine art is the only teacher except torture.

Art is the questioning of culture

In a nation that has developed to a high art advertising, the creator who refuses to advertise himself is immediately suspected of having no product worth selling.

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is black charcoal crushing white paper.

Art is a wholly physical language whose words are all the visible objects.

Art is nothing without form.

[Art is] an attempt to escape from life.

I demanded a realm in which I should be both master and slave at the same time: The world of art is the only such realm.

All art is an abstraction to some degree.

The depths modern art has been exploring are mysterious depths, full of strange fish.

The divine art is the story.

A lot of great art comes from the Afro-American male experience. Black men are geniuses, and many times their desperation, their position as being pariahs, leads them to great originality.

We know the principles of coaching. The art is knowing when to apply them.

That's where the most beautiful art is always created, when you have someone not worried about what the outcome is.

Art is no longer anything more than a kind of meta-language for banality.

Art is so subjective, and people can react however they want.

That's the test of street art – to see if anybody stopped. People would cross out ones they didn't like and would star others. I liked that people would engage with them.