The Art Quotes
The future is trash. Recycling it, re-arranging it. Making it beautiful again.
If you introduce the human figure you at once arouse either disgust or desire.
When we create, we become stronger. When we create, we feel better. When we create, we can use our own two hands to create a new world. And this new world will be as we want it to be.
Nothing seems to me more tragic than the pressures we put on artists to do what we think we'll like, and our refusal to prize what is most ornery and special about them.
Everything is art and it's part of the painting. (To talk with somebody it's art, to understand a language is art, to understand a book is art, to understand somebody is art...)
Art is neither a muscle nor a cure for ugliness. Ugliness has its own reasons and convictions to stay here. Art has a patience of a civilized, patience to withhold the gentleness of the civilization.
A great artist is conscious of the talent and the power he possesses, otherwise he would not see his faults, and so would not be able to improve.
There is no such thing as reproduction, only acts of production.
Your art…” I gaped at the field of white. “There was a lovely portrait of me—right there.”I get offended whenever art is damaged, especially if that art features me.
I’ve done everything I wanted to do, writing books, learning about things, but I’ve been swindled all the same because it’s never anything more.
Not only the artist watches his art with admiration but his art also watches his artist with admiration!
With Michelangelo anatomical science is transformed into music. With him the human body is architectonic matter for the construction of dreams.
Writing is probably the only form of art, through which you can express, which you would otherwise wouldn't dare to say in person....
Don't just create art to make money. Make money so you can create more art. (Exchange any words you want for 'create art' and see if it fits).
...it's not what artists touch that counts most. It's what they don't touch.
Learn about art, Captain. When you understand a species' art, you understand that species.
Having small touches of colour makes it more colourful than having the whole thing in colour
There’s only one way to assure consistently good work. That is consistently thorough preparation.
When you master the art of work, then your life becomes a work of art...and you're the artist and no one else paints your life for you.
Try and make them understand that while artists can recycle their suffering in their art, I didn't know what to do with mine.
Great work is not created for everyone. If it were, it would be average work.
Yes, she is.” His eyes remained on Olivia, but she wasn’t aware he was watching her. “With art, I believe anything created with profound heart is captured compulsively beautifully.
ART happens every time we live in the spirit of the moment's greatness.
His vision was religious and clean, and therefore his paintings were without decoration or superfluous comment, since a religious man respects the power of God's creation to bear witness for itself.
Art, I subsequently realised, is like that. It softens by association and implication. It renders the hard pliable. It creates gaps, gaping holes really, in possibility.
In some way, every creative action disturbs the universe.
And yet, in terms of its emotive potential, I still find art more attractive, currently, than books, which fail at a deeper level.
Art that only comes from the head isn't any good.
How important are the visual arts in our society? I feel strongly that the visual arts are of vast and incalculable importance. Of course I could be prejudiced. I am a visual art.
I knew a girl and she felt like art.Sometimes colorful, sometimes dull, Sometimes with bright, hopeful eyes, Sometimes only black and white, But she was always a piece of exquisite art.
My ears hear colors and my eyes see sounds.
The identification of fantasy is always an attempt to avoid one's own suffering: the identification of art is the sharing in the suffering of another.
Photography is like exploring a new dimension, only I can go there but I can show you where I've been.
