The Art Quotes

I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.

At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important.

The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn.

Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap.

Art is either a complaint or appeasement.

Find your authentic voice, become vulnerable, and then put yourself out there.

It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one's arms again.

Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.

I am the soul in limbo.

For a true artist, difficulties become opportunities and clouds become solid present.

I get angry about things, then go on and work.

When the writer (or the artist in general) says he has worked without giving any thought to the rules of the process, he simply means he was working without realizing he knew the rules.

You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.

What a comfort to know that God is a poet.

Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.

We are not disillusioned because we have no illusions... What we have and what is our strength, is our joy in life... in all its amoral aspects. That is also the basis of our contemporary art.

Art must always remain earnest... Art must be serious, no sarcasm, comedy. One does not laugh at a loved one.

To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.

The current fad in art, is to shock people or appear 'different'... My goal is to help people find the rays of sunshine in an often dark world.

I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship.

The dichotomy between art and industry is totally dysfunctional in terms of film.

This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society.

The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.

Nature can exist without Art, but Art can never exist without Nature.

I was at college doing performing arts, and just spending all my time mucking about, and the lecturers thought I would be pretty good at stand-up, so I gave it a whirl.

Science attempts to figure out laws and then uses it later. While the work of art reflects the cosmic order without asking for an explanation

One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.

Art is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it.

Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you're bankrupt.

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

To be a fool at the right time is also an art.

Wilderness areas are first of all a series of sanctuaries for the primitive arts of wilderness travel, especially canoeing and packing.

Living with and studying good paintings offers greater interest, variety and satisfaction than any other pleasure known to man.

The main function of the museum has been to serve as a pedestal upon which a clique of socialites pose as patrons of the arts

You can't make love without art.

The truth is revealed by removing things that stand in its light, an art not unlike sculpture, in which the artist creates, not by building, but by hacking away.

An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life.

Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.

Printing demands a humility of mind, for the lack of which many of the fine arts are even now floundering in self-conscious and maudlin experiments.

You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.

The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication.

Both individual skill (art) and chance are important factors in determining success or failure.

Creativity: Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.

High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.

Concision in art is a necessity and an elegance. The verbose painter bores: who will get rid of all these trimmings?

If you can take something to levels that very few other people can reach, then what you're doing becomes art.

Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk.