The Art Quotes
Style like the human body is specially beautiful when the veins are not prominent and the bones cannot be counted.
The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction.
Theatre takes place all the time wherever one is and art simply facilitates persuading one this is the case.
We must grant the artist his subject his idea his donnee: Our criticisms apply only to what he makes of it.
The artist like the God of the creation remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork invisible refined out of existence indifferent paring his fingernails.
Designers and free lance artists and editors can set their hourly rates by dividing their annual income needs by 1000.
Children like animals use all their senses to discover the world. Then artists come along and discover it the same way all over again.
Conception my boy fundamental brainwork is what makes the difference in all art.
A picture lives by companionship. It dies by the same token. It is therefore risky to send it out into the world. How often it must be impaired by the eyes of the unfeeling.
Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious individualistic unconventional sensitive irritable.
With the pride of the artist you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.
History repeats itself but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
If you ask me what I came to do in this world I an artist I will answer you: T am here to live out loud.'
In any evolutionary process even in the arts the search for novelty becomes corrupting.
The cheap no matter how charming how immediate does not wear so well. It has a way of telling its whole story the first time through.
Art gropes it stalks like a hunter lost in the woods listening to itself and to everything around it unsure of itself waiting to pounce.
Man in Canadian art is rarely in command of his environment or ever at home in it.
What's an artist but the dregs of his work - the human shambles that follows it around?
Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which throughout his lifetime he draws what he is and what he says and when the source dries up the work withers and crumbles.
As an artist grows older he has to fight disillusionment and learn to establish the same relation to nature as an adult as he had when a child.
The artist like the idiot or clown sits on the edge of the world and a push may send him over it.
An artist has to take life as he finds it. Life by itself is formless wherever it is. Art must give it form.
The terror of art lies in the representation of the hidden reality with its shattering effect.
Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois so that you may be violent and original in your work.
Gloria was still talking, something about how shooting people was in a sense safer than making art, in terms of avoiding serious lapses in taste.