The Art Quotes
The point of art is that it always has the necessity to expand because people are inherently expanding.
Recently some work I made could be seen as feminist art or work that relates to the body. That's just what I'm feeling - like it needs to be done.
The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship
I love art. But I love it because it is the expression of a living philosophy. It's the leftovers. Art is what's left over from life.
Contemplating a purported work of art is a social activity. Either you have a rewarding time, or you don't. You don't have to say why afterward. You don't have to say anything.
A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.
Ideas are the old-age of art. Artists have to keep young; they must not think too much - thought is death, while art is life. Such was Emile's viewpoint.
To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth…but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.
One of the great things about collecting contemporary art is that you mix with contemporary people.
The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.
While appropriation art is critical to art, it's an ambiguous art form in the world of the Supreme Court.
There's a ton of good art and music and writing out there offline among a ton of trash, and the same goes with what's online.
Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone.
The art is in preparing the content for optimal human consumption. The data doesn't just talk back to you. You collect, you analyze, you tell stories.
The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I've been thinking about that a lot.
Every work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death.
Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human spirit is more important.
I think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean?
I want to be the person whose art is accessible, who someone could look at and say "That's doesn't look so hard, I could do that."
To have a museum like the Museum of Modern Art in New York is to have power. I don't have any interest in being the director of an institution that has power.
The literary world is more time-traveling than the art world, and novelty is much more important in art than it is in writing.
What really drives me mad about art is that, in America, the only thing you can do is to take it apart.
The fight of satyagraha is for the strong in spirit, not the doubter or the timid. Satyagraha teaches us the art of living as well as dying.
I don't know the history of art, but I got over intimidation from the art world when I realized that I was allowed to feel whatever I want and like whatever I want.
I believe that all true art is classic, but the dictates of the mind rarely permit of its being recognized as such when it first appears.
Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall.
So that’s what art is, for the artist,” said Crake. “An empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid.
Art is the free expression of the artist and they tried to stop us from expressing ourselves, our art.
Immaterial art is the strongest because there's no obstacle; there's just energy, and I believe in energy.
Both of my parents were cartoonists - they met in art school - so I was always drawing and I was the best artist in my class and all that stuff.
The only way to survive is to intently focus on how the art world operates. Once you understand how things work, you can find a solution to the problems you are facing.
Living is the original art. As a young man I wanted to be a poet and I learned along the way that I already was a poet.
Art is how a culture records its life, how it poses questions for the next generation and how it will be remembered.
If people were able to be convinced that art is precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and social consequences of the next technology, would they all become artists?
If a work of art is to explore new environments, it is not to be regarded as a blueprint but rather as a form of action-painting.
