The Art Quotes

AI is a bridge between art and science.

Art is the most important way of recording history.

To make great art, you had to expose your soul, and some things should be left safely in the dark.

I may be biased, but I think the cover art is stunning.

Art is fantastic, but it's also that you come to Paris, you call me, I come to New York, I come to visit you, we hang out together, and that's art.

The development that produces great art is a moral and not an aesthetic development.

All art is probably erotic in its ultimate character, but painting more than anything else is a purely nervous erotic activity.

Art first of all is optical. That's where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.

Art is about cosmic beauty. Science is about cosmic order. Religion is about cosmic purpose.

Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist.

I did do, well before Pop Art, all the cartoon characters as paintings.

As far as art's concerned, I probably like modern art more than traditional art.

I think fashion is art. The dialogue I am concerned with as an artist has more to do with the art and artists that I've been influenced by. I can't help but be affected by all the art that I've seen.

Art used to be painting, sculpture, music, etc, but now, all technology has become art. Of course, this form of art is still very primitive, but it is slowly replacing reality.

Art is drama. Any relationship to art is also a relationship to death.

Now all we have to do to enter the realm of art is to take a car.

I am very interested in and that is what Sun Tzu in his ancient Chinese text calls The Art of War.

The cinema was certainly an art, but television can't be, because it is the museum of accidents. In other words, its art is to be the site where all accidents happen. But that's its only art.

Art has become more than painting, sculpture or music: art is more than Van Gogh painting a landscape or Wagner composing an opera. The whole of reality itself has become the object of art.

Believing that art is either worth a fortune or worth nothing at all.

Often much of my work is very optimistic, or solution-based. I have always believed that art is a tool for transformation, and something that should give people some kind of agency.

I love when violent, dangerous art is done by people who are not violent and dangerous. I love that when George Romero was making 'Dawn of the Dead,' he was coaching his son's little league team.

I love Love - though he has wings, And like light can flee, But above all other things, Spirit, I love thee - Thou art love and life! Oh come, Make once more my heart thy home.

To understand Occupy Wall Street, you have to understand artists. Art is freedom - freedom of expression - and its message has resonated through society for centuries.

Art is always subject to change in a moment by somebody who's strong enough to shed new light on it.

It's possible I am the only art critic that a lot of people read. And maybe Robert Hughes, if he's still writing.

My problem with political art is not that it's bad art necessarily, but that it is terrible politics.

Im not trying to do conceptual art.

To me, thoughts are fun and art is fun. The strength of our society should not be idle entertainments but the joy of pursuing ideas.

A city's art must give the impression that art is as indispensable a thing as water, or food.

Art is always of fixed, determined solutions - not things that might as well be different.

I did not go to art school thinking that I was an artist; I went there mainly doing stage sets for bands. I considered my work more as an applied art for musicians, not as art in and for itself.

Art is ultimately schizophrenic.

Marketing of art is, and to my mind has always been, trendy. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean there is any real long-term value. As an artist I do what I like. As a collector I collect what I like.

Art is the way people see things, and I think it's great when individuals can find in fashion something they truly believe is artistic

The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.

If art is to have a special train, the critic must keep some seats reserved on it.

There is only good art and mediocre art.

The proper school to learn art is not life but art

All bad art is the result of good intentions.

Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.

If the art is concealed, it succeeds.

Art is most effective when concealed.

Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.

My natural orientation has never been among a community of writers, really. For some reason my social world has always been in the art world.

I have spent a lot of time in the art world, and I guess I do listen to how people speak. I'm interested in what they say and how they say it.

A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.

What draws me to theater and religion are these rituals made to make you feel emotion. It's so banal in an interesting way. In visual art it's about making you feel emotional, but it's more subtle.

More unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life.

Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing so little to be reached as with criticism.