The Art Quotes

I studied anthropology and art history, as I have always been captivated by living traditions.

Great art is created only through diligent and painstaking effort to perfect and polish oneself.

Art is only great if it's uncodifiable. If art isn't scaring you, if it's not making you upset, then I don't think it's actually doing anything.

For me, art is always a kind of theater.

I quite like it to be risky. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet. I've arrived at that point in the art world where there really is a chair that you sit in.

Art is kind of the lens through which I think about God.

Art class was my thing, but not any other class.

I put everything I can into a record. That's what art is for. I take a risk every time I do one with my whole being.

If the point of good art is to be somewhat subtle then it's not going to catch everyone.

Art is an irreplaceable way of understanding and expressing the world.

... Art is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

Art is the reordering of nature - the qualities of space and time - in new perceptual and material form.

In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best.

The power of art is that it can connect us to one another, and to larger truths about what it means to be alive and what it means to be human.

I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.

There's a point where art is not subjective, and my example for that is Picasso. If you don't like Picasso, that's your problem.

The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors.

Like many members of the uncultured, Cheez-It consuming public, I am not good at grasping modern art.

I've always been obsessed by visual art as I have been by music personally, but that doesn't mean anything professionally.

Bragging about what a good deal you got is one of the many great art forms that my people, the Jews, have introduced to American culture.

I don't believe that crime, danger and poverty make for good art. That's bullshit.

A work of art is an act of love. Critics are crab lice.

I have a very, very good relationship with 10 percent of the audience. The only purpose of art is intimacy. That's the only point.

Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there?

I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.

I've never been interested in, much in the politics of the art world, it doesn't interest me.

Well, I've been blessed with good hair, or at least some people think it is. It is the way it is, sort of does what it wants to. So, yeah, I guess it is [a metaphor for your views on art and life].

Art isn't about following the rules. It's about breaking them.

What is great about art and artists is that we get to ask the questions, even though we may never know the answers.

I can never fathom it when people say things like "I can't understand abstract art!" Or: "Abstract art is junk!" Or: "Abstract art isn't as valid as realism!"

When the established members of academia start becoming vocal as to how poor your art is, then you know you're on to something.

Football is one side of me. Art is another. Travel is another.

Only thanks to Pop Art, my painting has become understandable.

Things that bring out your emotions are what should be in theaters and in books. That's what art is. It makes you feel things.

People say great art is immortal. I say there's something mortal in it. It carries a glimpse of death.

When you get questions that annoy you the art is answering them differently. If you're bored with it, then everyone will be bored with it.

One of the pleasures of art is that it enables the mind to move in unanticipated directions, to make connections that may be in some sense errors but are fruitful nonetheless.

Most great art is freedom within form. Without form, we are amateurs, without freedom, we are robots.

I have long been a fan and enthusiast where art is concerned.

Sport is about achievements. Art is to be touch and touch others in a personal level.

The art of living in a small town is one of the most difficult to acquire.

I would love to collect art at some point, but I think the whole rap/art world thing is getting kind of corny.

You can’t teach art, so ART SCHOOL is a contradiction in terms.

I'm very hard on the art world just being a big business.

Every major work of art is a transgression, but the artist is not necessarily, by nature, a transgressor.

Language evolves and moves on. It is an organic thing. It is not stuck in an ivory tower, hung with expensive works of art.

The mind left to itself creates monstrosities, and not only in art galleries. Look at our urban landscapes and industrial wastelands. No civilization has ever produced so much ugliness.

I really don't know what's good or bad art because all the art I like people tell me is tasteless.

Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness - the work.

In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.