The Art Quotes

Recessions are hard on people, but they are not hard on Art.

All art comes from other art, and all immigrants come from other places.

Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness.

Galleries began growing in both number and size in the late seventies, when artists who worked in lofts wanted to exhibit their work in spaces similar to the ones the art was made in.

The art gods cooked up something special for James Ensor.

The Met is not only the finest encyclopedic museum of art in the United States; it is arguably the finest anywhere.

Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good.

I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste.

After its hothouse incubation in the seventies, appropriation breathed important new life into art. This life flowered spectacularly over the decades - even if it's now close to aesthetic kudzu.

My culture-deprived, aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb - where the word art never came up - to the Art Institute of Chicago. I hated it.

I don't want to hear at all what the artist thinks about his art. And I'm not writing for the artist. I'm writing for the reader, and I want to tell the reader what I think.

To me, the building [of Museum of Arts and Design]now looks like a lovely jewel box, and the tiled façade reminds me of a heat shield.

Craft is not a category; it's a means. The folks running the museum [Museum of Arts and Design]are sharp, and they know this, but they are in a bind.

In the arts there are many right answers.

I realized the structure in a collection is how they're put together. Structuring the collection became the art of it for me. Because the stories had all been written.

You don't have to go to New York and you don't have to go to LA or London. Go somewhere cheap. Go somewhere with free art museums and then just go to art museums.

Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.

When we take out school psychologists, truant officers, counselors, art, music, and athletics, and bring in the police, the school gets turned into a feeder system for the penal system.

Women’s voices, LGBT voices, and the voices of people of color are all needed in any art form if we want to explore the true possibilities of that art form. Diversity is strength.

Performance became part of my art in a way - expressing things and emotion.

I want my whole life to be a great work of art, not just my art. And that means paying attention to my entire life and trying to make sure my whole life is balanced.

Without love there is no art. When the artist is playing beautifully there is no 'me; there is love and beauty, and this is art. This is skill in action.

Acting is something I love to do. I love to perform and I love the art, the craft of it

I would categorize my books as literature, and I hope that is how they would be consumed. The books do not rely on the artwork to be understood, but I need my art practice to write them.

When I sing, I have to live in that moment, so my audience can feel that. That is my reason for doing art.

In my own work I am invested in art as a way to break through impasses, whether those impasses are personal, social, or political.

I haven't made art about Israel. There's a covert subtext of Jewish identity in my artwork.

What inspires me still: travel, art, photography, my kids, the places I haven't been to yet.

One of my mission statements with all of my art has been to stop the world for people. I want to stop the worrying and stop the world.

Cats are anthropomorphised in art because they are so laid back that you automatically attribute human thoughts and feelings to them.

Clothing is viral, impermanent in a way that public art cannot be. So I like thinking of how corporate-created clothing can be seen as a form of public art.

Stand-up is an amazing art form, I think, because it's all about you having complete control of the situation, but absolutely none.

The artist had captured a moment that went on suggesting other moments in the mind of the beholder. This, Timmon told me, was what every painter, every singer, every craftsman sought to create.

The arts and humanities are vastly more important in troubled times.

Unlike sciences, literature as art relies on societal acceptance of a certain vocabulary.

We take our last look at the killing noise.

Being rich and famous seems to have its ups and downs. That's the price you pay for being troubadours and clowns.

I have always thought that the photographer does artistic work and that art consists of working with fictional premises.

I worked in an art gallery for a few years, doing administrative assistance stuff, and it exposed me to what the whole world of art dealers and the art market was about.

Time - whether you are burning it up or falling in love or spreading it out thin in a dentist's waiting room - is a commodity that cannot be weighed out and measured by clocks.

The arts are the signature of a nation.

O mysterious Night! thou art not silent; many tongues halt thou.

How long did it take me to delimit this art? Twenty years! ... It was a laborious process, but a methodical and rational one; gradually the hesitations were ironed out, but not all of a sudden.

I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it.

What I'm good at is making art.

It's really, really hard to make it as a fine-art photographer exclusively.

I grew up doing martial arts, and it's one of these things where I always kind of liked acting, but I was never real serious about it.

Wine pricing is an art - like painting.

There's art that I think is pretty silly, but it doesn't get under my skin like it used to.

Money issue looms so large in art now. And it has absolutely nothing to do with art.