The Art Quotes

Ye want to tell the plain truth all your life, woman, and speak straight; otherwise ye get to seeing double.

We are primitive men; we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be associated with the idea of morality.

Every work of art should give utterance, or indicate, the awful blind strength and the cruelty of the creative impulse, that is why they must all have what are called errors, both of taste and style.

I was actually qualified to be an art teacher, but I didn't want to teach.

Being a head designer or art director or just even a designer, you need a certain level of experience and maturity.

Looking back, [R.E.M.]videos, by in large, have always been art films. I'm thinking of "Losing My Religion." That's a landmark piece.

That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running was mankind's first fine art, our original act of inspired creation.

Art does not explain.

If it looks like art, chances are it's somebody else's art.

I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.

I love making art... It's largely how I see myself. I'm an artist; therefore I have to make art.

When it comes to art you can't please everybody but if you please yourself then take pleasure in that.

I went back to the Art Institute, then spent the summer at the Ox-Bow School in Saugatuck, Michigan. That's what really awakened me. I made a lot of oil paintings and my first performance.

I am interested in the art. I'm a professional woman

The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art.

We made an amazing video about Newtown's struggle to figure out what to do with all the letters and art sent to the town.

The artistic impulse seems not to wish to produce finished work. It certainly deserts us half-way, after the idea is born; and if we go on, it is labor.

The writer writes about what happened in order to make it make sense, to put it in perspective, to turn it into art; and art becomes the vehicle on which we ride out the truth of our experiences.

I was an 'Ironman' fan. It was in the '70s. I definitely liked comics and drew a lot of panels on my notebook when I should have been studying - probably why I ended up in the arts.

I know if I wasn't making music and acting, I would be involved in the performing arts world in some way. I would be either writing and making music for other artists or producing movies.

I never want to produce anything that a family could not enjoy together. I never want to create art that would embarrass my own children later.

I think that if you are going to be successful as a Christian in the arts, you have to be successful in your Christian life.

Science fiction is a kind of archaeology of the future.

There are lives lived for love, and lives lived for art. We, happy band, have chosen the later persuasion.

First-rate science fiction was, and remains, more interesting than second-rate art.

Reading and writing... are exciting. The most exciting things I can think of. And now, as I reflect... I have to say that I've been lucky in that I'm amused by what I do - sufficiently amused.

Fashion: a beautiful thing that becomes ugly. Art: an ugly thing that becomes beautiful.

I've always loved movies, art and clothes.

My books and other works are my legacy, and it's a great comfort to know that mine is a legacy of pleasure for other people.

Anyone who works in the arts knows, if you're writing a novel or a play or anything, you have to be ready for someone to say, 'Your time is up.'

My view of myself as an artist expanded because of the time I spent at Cal Arts.

I had a passion and love of learning and wisdom that was inseparable from a love of music and the arts. I've never viewed them in any way as being separable.

I was not too stupid to learn, but too smart. Some instinct must have warned me that a woman accomplished in the domestic arts is frequently enslaved by them.

Create quality art.... meaningful, passionate and high quality work! If it's not meaningful to you, how can you expect it to be meaningful to anyone else?

Science is a line, art a superficies, and life or the knowledge of God, a solid.

Being funny is a gift, and, when done well, is an art form.

I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.

Once in his lifetime every artist feels the hand of God and creates something that comes alive.

What does a painter do? You get a painting, you put some intent and passion and emotion into these things, and hope the people will receive it. Same as a playwright. It's art.

If you consider yourself a part of the culture, then finances can't allow you to be bigger than the actual art form.

Chemistry: that most excellent child of intellect and art.

It's true that what is morbid is highly valued today, and so you may think that I am only joking or that I've devised just one more means of praising Art with the help of irony.

It's not art for art's sake, it's art for my sake.

What one does in one's art, that is the breath of one's being. What one does in one's life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about.

I would like to be in a superhero movie where I do martial arts.

I've always wished that I had a great ability to verbalize art theory and find a way that I fit in to the whole lineage, but I don't have a clue.

As soon as something becomes art I think you get over the fear

I can’t wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it.

Sensation is an element of what I do, and why not? It's not sensational for the sake of being sensational, but it's sensational art... It's like touching skin.

In fact, the first piece of art I ever sold, I paid someone else to make the next one, so I could actually keep going out drinking.