The Art Quotes
I have always been interested in art but had no formal training or experience. It's always been just what I liked, my eye for art.
Basically the message is: Steal It! Art, music, culture, the odd book and the slab of cheese... the new will be built upon the ruins of the old.
The artist makes art not to save mankind but to save himself. Every benevolent comment by an artist is a fog to cover his tracks, the bloody trail of his assault against reality and others.
I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.
The faculty of art is to change events; the faculty of science is to foresee them. The phenomena with which we deal are controlled by art; they are predicted by science.
I live through risk. Without risk there is no art. You should always be on the edge of a cliff about to fall down and break your neck.
I went to a Canadian college for performing arts and then I auditioned for Canadian Idol. That honestly was my golden ticket.
Art civilizes us and it connects us and activates us. And so it's really important to connect with compassion, with stories about people who are different from us.
I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.
Art is a kind of mining," he said. "The artist a variety of prospector searching for the sparkling silver of meaning in the earth.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is unsurpassed at presenting more than 50 centuries of work. I go there constantly, seeing things over and over, better than I've ever seen them before.
I think a big problem with art school is that it makes people feel like they have to be interested in everything that's of high quality.
Art is not disposable. If you want it, you have to hold it and smell it and touch it and read the credits and enjoy it and put it on your wall.
I mean, people listen to music, and they like that, but I think in England, a lot of people don't like contemporary art.
Lucky people develop a relationship with a certain kind of art that becomes spiritual, almost religious, and doesn’t mean, you know, church stuff, but it means you’re just never the same.
Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do.
Until cubism, all art, all pictures, could be 'read' by anybody. If this hadn't been so, the Christian message wouldn't have been seen by peasants and its importance would have been diminished.
At it's essence, art is an alchemical process. Alchemy is a process of transformation.
The world is a complicated place, and there's a lot of division between people. The performing arts tend to unify people in a way nothing else does.
Boys who spent their weekends making banana nut muffins did not, as a rule, excel in the art of hand-to-hand combat.
I began to exercise a lot of cinematic muscle with the precepts I had learned in the New York art world. Film was intriguing. I began to think of art as elitist, whereas film was not.
If a chair or a building is not functional, if it appears to be only art, it is ridiculous.
I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.
Somewhere a portion of contemporary art has to exist as an example of what the art and its context were meant to be.
Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.
No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.
Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.
I shall go so far that people will be seized with terror at the sight of each of my works of 'living' art.
I have never understood, for instance, why some people see contemporary art as divided between 'painting' and 'conceptual art', as though this represented a genuine division.
You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last.
The problem with contemporary art is that no one bothers to do the research necessary to give people what they want.
Art is free, but of course you have to be alert to catch it when it comes onto the canvas. I don’t choose the ideas, they choose me. I don’t wait for them. They come without my permission!
Art Is a Way Out. Do not let life overwhelm you. When the old paths are choked with the débris of failure, look for newer and fresher paths. Art is just such a path. Art is distilled from suffering.
The best art is about individualism, free self-expression and realising a unique, imaginative perspective- A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent.
I honestly believe students of painting in the next century will laugh at the abstract art movement. They will marvel at such a drawn-out regression in the plastic arts.
Jesus almost never talked in terms of explaining. He was always using enigmatic stories and difficult metaphors. He was always pulling people into some kind of participation.
An art critic is someone who appreciates art, except for any particular piece of art.