The Art Quotes

Art is not about something, Art is something

The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb.

Art is not about understanding, it’s about experience.

I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

Advertising, an art, is constantly besieged and compromised by logicians and technocrats, the scientists of our profession who wildly miss the main point about everything we do.

I liked that the work itself was something other than simply what you saw It meant you could have an art work which was that idea of an art work, and its formal components weren't important.

Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake.

The art of tomorrow will be a collective treasure, or it will not be art at all.

Johnny Cash was the champion of the voiceless, the underdogs and the downtrodden. He was also something of a holy terror, like Abraham Lincoln with a wild side. He represented the best of America.

Management of many is the same as management of few. It is a matter of organization.

If you have many desires your life will be interesting.

There is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect.

The golden rule in the arts, as far as I am concerned, is that all rules are meant to be broken.

To awaken human emotion is the highest level of art.

If you fail to take advantage of your enemies' collapse, they may recover.

Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.

A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.

America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.

True Music, like all true Art, is an experience to be shared, not judged, for praise cannot make it better, as blame cannot make it worse

I was born into a world of art. I always thought that in life, you breathe, you eat, you go to sleep and you draw.

Art is what you can get away with.

How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?

There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.

Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it.

The magic question is, 'What for?' But art is not for anything. Art is the ultimate goal.

Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.

An artistic impression is substantially the resultant of two components. One what the work of art gives the onlooker - the other, what he is capable of giving to the work of art.

To understand your fear is the beginning of really seeing.

Only a warrior can survive the path of knowledge because the art of the warrior is to balance the pain of being a man with the wonder of being a man.

Art is manipulation without intervention.

School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians

The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which hs to be acquired with difficulty.

Whatever happens to the art world, art will go on regardless. As for obscurity, it looms just over the horizon beckoning us all. Why worry.

I am for an art that takes its form from the lines of life itself, that twists and extends and accumulates and spits and drips, and is heavy and coarse and blunt and sweet and stupid as life itself.

How do we fight back? By creating art.

Well, I mean, taking time for your art is taking time for yourself, isn't it?

The new art must be based upon science - in particular, upon mathematics, as the most exact, logical, and graphically constructive of the sciences.

A country like Belgium, or socialist countries in central Europe spend more money on art education than the United States, which is a really puzzling thought.

The task of the artist is to sense more keenly than others the harmony of the world, the beauty and the outrage of what man has done to it, and poignantly to let people know.

In art, everything is particular. The more particular and the more intimate you get, the more you can give in the piece.

A work of art can only come from the interior of man. Art is the form of the image formed upon the nerves, heart, brain and eye of man.

Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved

Outside is the world; it's there. Pop Art looks out into the world.

I read the art reviews of my work. Some critics understand my art correctly, while some don't. I simply ignore the reviews written by the latter.

Spiritually I am wherever my spirit allows me to be, and that is not necessarily in the future... Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.

Fashion goes with the feeling of the moment. It's related to movies, to art, to young people's taste.

An artist can accomplish anything provided he doesn't accept facts or defeat for more than a few minutes.

Talent is cheap, you have to be possessed or obsessed, rather. You really have to feel like you cannot not do art, and that is something you can't will.

I think art, if it's meaningful at all, is a conversation with other artists. You say something, they say something, you move back and forth.

The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe.