The Art Quotes

I'm an observer. I read about life. I research life. I find a corner in a room and melt into it. I can become invisible. It's an art, and I am a wonderful practitioner.

Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.

Where does contagion end and art begin?

Grey has no agenda. . . . Grey has the ability, that no other colour has, to make the invisible visible.

Art is my life and my life is art.

Art is the giving by each man of his evidence to the world. Those who wish to give, love to give, discover the pleasure of giving. Those who give are tremendously strong.

Art is a person's private vision expressed in aesthetic forms.

When we did art with the kids, the demons would lie down.

Art goes into the world unarmed, vulnerable to every quirk of fate, and it must survive only by its power to move men not to destroy it.

Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and myth are ways of bringing order and form into this chaos.

He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find no floor to the universe.

I think comedy as an art involves the audience as a participant as much as is involves the artist.

But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating.

Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.

What is art if not a concentrated and impassioned effort to make something with the little we have, the little we see?

...a society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists.

Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.

From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections.

Colors are light's suffering and joy

My father used to say, 'If you want to know the artist, look at the art'. He was usually talking about Stanley Matthews or Don Bradman when he said it.

The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems.

Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself.

Art tends toward balance, order, judgment of relative values, the laws of growth, the economy of living – very good things for anyone to be interested in.

In trying to be perfect, He perfected the art of anonymity, Became imperceptible And arrived nowhere from nowhere.

Since art is considered a noble field, art should be used to promote all that is good and noble, and in a noble fashion.

...to make art is to realize another's sadness within, realize the hidden sadness in other people's lives, to feel sad with and for a stranger.

Art always penetrates the particular fissures in one's psychic life.

Art cannot save anybody from anything.

We love the imperfect shapes in nature and in the works of art, look for an intentional error as a sign of the golden key and sincerity found in true mastery.

I'm never proud of my old work. I always feel as though my skills have since improved.

An artist can respect the backfield of fact before which every human being stands and choose not to address those facts.

We always search for the signature of God to prove His existence. And now I say unto you that Art is His very signature!

The more successful the work, the more people will step in to try to influence and manipulate the work for their own benefit.

the great is seldom a deterrent to the mediocre

My art is the result of a deeply personal, infinitely complex, and still essentially mysterious, exploration of experience. No words will ever touch it.

An artist must either give up art or develop.

In short, it became possible - never easy, but possible - in the poet Auden's phrase to find the mortal world enough.

The market follows the artist. The artist does not follow the market.

From space this Earth is incandescent with abominations - the gods write their signature in our entrails

An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.

If what you create seems to turn out much stranger than who you are as a person, it's probably because your heart is talking.

When there's music in your soul, there's soul in your music.

Music is not my life. My life is music.

Artists are often the barometers of society.

Why does everyone think a guy who prefers love to people is missing something in his life?

I enjoy poetry where I can talk as bizarre as I please, but theology or philosophy, I always respect the truth by taking it a step further.

Keep it weird. They'll get it later.

Not everybody has a talent for painting, or for the piano, or for dance. But we can write our way into the artist's head and into his problems and solutions. Or we can go there with another writer.

Art was as much in the activity as in the results. Works of art were not just the finished product, but the thought, the action, the process that created them.

To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing.