The Art Quotes

Edward [Weston] was the first artist - and I don't use the word lightly - to make a living doing art photography. Other photographers did commercial work, or worked for the government.

I'm not the type to turn to drugs and alcohol, but I do have a profound devotion to art and music - and children.

A spiritual search in art is looking for meaning outside of yourself.

Art is continually working to take the crust of familiarity off everyday objects.

Creative art is the power to be for a moment a flash of communication between God and man.

The job of the art is to really convey and support that empathetic response. I always try to find where the character is mushy, and then bring that to the forefront.

A lot of people, even my parents, thought, "Art school, I don't know. We'll support you but the success rate for artists is really slim."

I knew my ticket out of the suburbs was art school, so I worked really hard to develop my portfolio and get a scholarship.

Art is inspiring. Walking into a gallery, or when the lights go up on a stage; that thrill of getting something that has nothing to do with acquisition.

Art is an artifice that you try to make seem natural.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period.

Most good art is left wing. It's a moot point whether there is any good right-wing art.

Art is an artificial organization of experience.

Art is the most important thing to me in the entire world. It is my passion. Nothing else. End of story.

Many outsiders see the art world as elitist and it is, except it is also oddly down-to-earth and embracing of oddballs who don't fit in well anywhere else.

I think all good art is outsider art.

Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss.

When I got into art school, I thought it was paradise. I wanted to be an artist so much that I was really driven and nothing could stop me.

I'm not so sure that the value of art is all it is cracked up to be.

Teach the art of living well.

Everything in art is but a copy of nature.

Art is more than a product of your efforts - it should be about feeling, life, attitude, soul.

Art is a human act, a generous contribution, something that might not work, and it is intended to change the recipient for the better, often causing a connection to happen.

Art is the work of a human being – something a person does with generosity to touch someone else to make a change for the better.

Art is the act of doing work that matters while dancing with the voice in your head that screams for you to stop.

I think art is the ability to change people with your work, to see things as they are and then create stories, images, and interactions that change the marketplace.

By my definition, most art has nothing to do with oil paint or marble. Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.

Art is never defect-free. Things that are remarkable never meet spec, because that would make them standardized, not worth talking about.

I cannot tell good art from bad art. I have no eye for it.

Art is a platform where self-expression should not be limited. I'm here to inspire. There is no age limit to that.

What's great about art is that if you can reach people, if they hear or see what you do and it moves them, there's a commonality.

You know, I just don't believe that art is supposed to make sense. I really don't think it's supposed to be analyzed to death. It's left to the listener or looker to get what they can get from it.

I have much to teach you. Come and learn the art of war from the one who invented it. (Takeshi)

Mastering an art is like reaching the top of the passion mountain.... at the top the passion dies out! So keep learning.

Art school is a very difficult thing to run in a generous, humane way, because academic power is somehow very corrupting.

Art has no immediate future, because all art is collective and there is no more collective life.

We lose ourselves in stories; that's the beauty of literary art.

Formal art is essentially rational.

Art is an attempt to give substance to existence.

I like visual arts, and what I love doing is participating in the making of it.

The art isn't there to be purchased - it's there to be enjoyed.

Toronto may be the only city where novels are integral to high art, the alternative scene and mainstream culture all at the same time.

Art is often confused with the skill of drawing. It is the skill of making.

If the art is created with the whole person, then the work will come out whole. Education must teach, reach, and vibrate the whole person rather than merely transfer knowledge.

Making art is an act of courage. Do you know who said that?

We go see theater, we take in art because it makes us feel.

I started connecting things to my body during my childhood. I approached the computer as a mediating element, as a form of visual art.

People don't really have a relationship with great writing or great production or great art direction or great direction. They just sort of admire it.

Art is a war - between ourselves and the forces of self-sabotage that would stop us from doing our work. The artist is a warrior.

There can be no good art that is international. Art to be vigorous and gesund must use the material at hand.