The Art Quotes

If the work of art is good enough, it must not be criticized for its theme. I don't think it can be argued.

Art is nowhere near as dangerous as it should be.

Art is real and imaginary, two worlds rolled into one - the fulfillment of the artist's insatiable soul.

One of the distinguishing characteristics of the true work of art is that it is able to both contain and express different meanings - meanings which may in fact contradict each other.

I don't believe there's a man in Milton who knows how to sit still; and it is a great art.

Art is a framework, a kind of living trellis, on which public dreaming can shape itself.

It is in the comprehension of the physically disabled, or disordered ... that we are behind our age.... sympathy as a fine art is backward in the growth of progress.

I think furniture is art. I don't think art is just for your walls - I think everything that someone has made is a piece of art.

I have little art piece, a kind of short film thing I filmed with my friend. It's going to be 20 minutes, and we're going to submit it into festivals but also going to art galleries.

Translated books rarely get reviewed in the press. Books or poems or works of art that don't seem to have a corresponding style or figure or theme, obviously they're hard to digest.

I think so much of art is unconscious anyway, the artist doesn't know the real reason they're doing it. They're just kind of going along with it intuitively.

Art is one of the few ways we have of dealing with things that frighten or anger us.

Art is one of the few places where you can put it in a constructive way where it won't burn you up inside or hurt anyone.

Infiltrating the mainstream was a natural extension of my street art. I've always tried to communicate ideas to the public as directly as possible.

All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms of human society.

Art is manipulation, the management of material, the directing of fate... Who does that directing?

I'd been used to this idea of destructive performance art instead of a slick, good-sounding show. So, I became frustrated as I felt I'd been doing the shows wrong. That sucked.

I know the community mostly for its art and culture... and of course its food, I eat at their restaurants." "They make you feel like taking off your shoes... it feels like home.

For me taking a pragmatic decision when it comes to art is almost an oxymoron. The reason I first picked up a pen and wrote a story had nothing pragmatic in it.

grievance does not make for great art.

I was forced to make the decision between art and music which are the only two things I liked as opposed to being able to do them both because that's what I was interested in.

To most women art is a form of scandal.

the one universal form of art is music.

Currencies are things that you use to pay for other things; commodities are things that you buy. If art is going to be one or the other, it's going to be a commodity, not a currency.

In the art world, Monet means money.

No art is sunk in the self, but rather, in art the self becomes self-forgetful in order to meet the demands of the thing seen and the thing being made.

The business of art is to enlarge and correct the heart and to lift our ideals out of the ugly and the mean through love of the ideal. The business of art is to appeal to the soul.

My dream is to collaborate with a mature person.I feel like my talents were being wasted in art school. I would like to try something else, but not the obvious or usual thing.

As the art world changes, artists have more and more responsibility. You don't have a lot of luxury to be super secluded.

I'm making art and making decisions and editing things. I don't live my life to broadcast it into the art world; I don't see it as my life on the stage.

Art is both a vengeance against reality and a reconciliation with it.

In the art world Robert Rauschenberg had been combining common materials that people thought was art and beautiful, and it was. If he could do that, I could emulate him.

I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you.

Selfless giving is the art of living.

A master of an art is someone who's been mastered by the art. They've become so one with what they teach that you can't tell the teacher from the student.

Art is the splendor of reality before everything has become meaning.

Not every work of art is or need be a heavily profound statement.

And so while dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is (in a broader sense) the play with dreams.

Art is the right hand of Nature.

Art is an attitude toward life. If you aim your work and your life high, keep your scene harmonious, then you're an artist and your life is art.

One goal of my art is to help people remember why they are here now.

Only a lunatic would think that art is superior to nature.

I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.

Music and acting are the same thing: you must understand that art is only the search, not the final form.

I endeavor to trigger positive, empowering, life-giving emotion - I believe art is that powerful.

Art is the one thing that's the universal virtue that you can have in any class.

I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation.

Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow men beyond the bounds of our personal lot.

It is always understood as an expression of condemnation when anything in Literature or Art is said to be done for effect; and yet to produce an effect is the aim and end of both.

All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour , so even when you're using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that's technology .