The Art Quotes

Art is consumed in so many different ways. You could say people don't stop to appreciate art. On the other hand, people can consume art more quickly.

Art is man determined to die sane.

Art is the terms of an armistice signed with fate.

The most glorious thing about working in the collaborative art is when you have somebody like Susan Kingsley or Kathy Bates who are better than your play.

It was easy to leave the art world after I found out that it was just another corporation. When they told me I had to create the same thing, I rebelled.

The galleries are simply corporations in the art world - "Here's a million dollars for this latest piece of crap" - but I'm not about to go along with the gallery system.

After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators.

I think all art is subjective - that whoever's watching it or listening to it will decide whether it's good or bad.

I'm not interested in pop art.

When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.

Art is a never-ending dance of illusions.

I was attracted to things that combined art and science equally. I've always been equally interested in art design, science and engineering.

More people than ever are spending money to support more artists and musicians and give them more leisure time to build cereal balls...and the art world is eating those balls up!

W]hat makes a work of art ‘good’ for you is not something that is already ‘inside’ it, but something that happens inside you.

I think I always knew that I would do something with art because it was the one thing that I knew I was really good at.

Real art is illumination, it adds stature to life.

Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.

The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.

All art is someone trying to tell you something.

I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning.

Art is something out of the ordinary commenting on the ordinary.

An acceptance of your cultural inheritance, and at the same time a dislike of it, is a building block of good art.

Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!

3D is like a computer. Every six months that computer that was state of the art is now obsolete.

I guess the role of art is to make something that is ambiguous and complex.

I grew up in the art world.

Folk art has never been much about politics; it's about action and utility.

Making music and art is about expressing something that's universally human, maybe even beyond human, at best.

Art is a business, like any other.

I do not know what evil is when it comes to art. I only know what is good art and what is bad art.

My exposure to visual art all my life was intensive.

If art is the poetic interpretation of nature, photography is the exact translation; it is exactitude in art or the complement of art. (1854)

Well, we have certainly produced great art before we did this. In my view, there are any number of areas of government which tax money should not be spent.

Art is really about how you capture different things you see around you and bring them into forms and words and shapes and meaning.

I started to paint in the year 2000. I never thought of going to an art school, even though I loved art.

The art world seems so much bigger than it was when I was growing up.

Making art is different for everyone.

I feel like contemporary art is everywhere now and with the rise of the internet, it's so much easier to see what artists are doing and to follow their careers.

I don't think you have to struggle to make good art. I think you have to be passionate to make good art. You have to believe in what you're doing. It just comes from when you lie awake at night.

Art is love and it covers. It sheilds.

The greatest art in life is to believe in Christ. That art is learned only in the Holy Spirit's school.

There are certain moments where artwork might seem like it's part of someone's career - if you really know the art world - , but I did my best to prevent that overlap.

A great work of art is one that continues to repay attention.

Duchamp is known for calling a thing art, rather than making it. A lot of that is picked up in pop art, too.

I had no idea what art was. There was one art class in high school, but it didn't make a big impression on me. Then I went to college and thought I'd become a writer.

Art is not meant to be created in stolen moments only.

A contemporary poet has characterized this sense of the personality of art and of the impersonality of science in these words,-'Art is myself; science is ourselves. '

Writing is a performance art for me. They're very closely aligned, writing and performing. But I'm a writer, not a performer.

That amenity which the French have developed into a great art . . . conversation.

Art is fast, but with art you're tied down. That's too negative. What I mean is, you have a business and a place that you go every day. I guess some artists do move around.