The Art Quotes
What one seems to want in art, in experiencing it, is the same thing that is necessary for its creation, a self-forgetful, perfectly useless concentration.
You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
I'm making some of the greatest art being made now. It'll take the art world ten years to get around to it.
All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.
I didn't know how a working-class girl like me could possibly make a living in the art world
Conciseness in art is essential and a refinement. The concise man makes one think; the verbose bores. Always work towards conciseness.
The art world has become so insular. The rules have become so autodidactic that, in a sense, they lose track of what people have any interest in thinking about, talking about or even looking at.
I cannot expect even my own art to provide all of the answers, only to hope it keeps asking the right questions.
Art respects the masses, by standing up to them for what they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state.
The expert in battle seeks his victory from strategic advantage and does not demand it from his men.
A sculptor is a person obsessed with the form and the shape of things, and it's not just Ihe shape of any one thing, but the shape of any thing and everything.
It wasn't that I amassed it with aims of selling it and becoming a rich man. My personality demanded that I be surrounded by the best examples of the world's art.
In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself.
Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs employed.
Master the divine techniques of the Art of Peace and no enemy will dare to challenge you.
Art does not solve problems but makes us aware of their existence. It opens our eyes to see and our brain to imagine.
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.
There is no art which has not had its beginnings in things full of errors. Nothing is at the same time both new and perfect.
Art itself is female - it is full of graciousness, cadence, color, rhythm. It's full of love and grace.
I have learned that what I have not drawn I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is, sheer miracle.
The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.
The Internet is both great and terrible. As a source of information, a tool for delivering music and art, it's great. But spamming ads and piracy of music is terrible. It's stealing.
If I was an artist, and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art.
An artist fights to retain the integrity of a work so that it remains a strong, clear vision. Art is and should be the act of an individual willing to say something new, something not quite familiar.
A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.
Fighting is an expression. It's a form of speech, and that's why they call it martial arts. It's an art.
I just always stay honest with myself. All my stuff isn't boastful, but some of it is. But that's just the music, the art.
I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted ... the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.
He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.