The Art Quotes

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.

Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804)

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.

You really need faith in yourself to make art and to stand up for what you believe in.

Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

You are what you read.

Art and prayer are the only decent ejaculations of the soul.

An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how to express them in a convincing form.

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.

Art forms that appeal to [leftists] tend to focus on ... defeat and despair ... as if there were no hope of accomplishing anything through rational calculation.

In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.

Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities.

The greatest of all the arts is the art of living together!

Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint.

I'm still useful in my capacity as an arts educator and caretaker for the stray dogs.

A woman is fascinated not by art but by the noise made by those in the field.

Artists make art. Singers sing. Players play. Gypsies travel. Music lights fires everywhere. It's like oxygen!

Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.

Education is not the taming or domestication of the soul's raw passions - not suppressing them or excising them, which would deprive the soul of its energy - but forming and informing them as art.

If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

A still small voice spake unto me, 'Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?

My mom is a painter, so I've been doing drawings and paintings as early as I can remember. Then there was this gap where I was doing graffiti in high school and making as much [traditional] art.

It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.

The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both.

Art attests to what is inhuman in man.

I'm not interested in perfection. The universe is perfect, and there are some works of art that we see as perfect, but human beings aren't perfect.

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument.

Art is a subset of creativity.

Women are not children. We are not fragile little birds who can't cope with jokes, works of art, or controversial speakers.

We have lost the art of living, and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life, the science of behavior, we are complete ignoramuses. We have psychology instead.

Art is about the dynamics of the human experience.

For me, art history is like a feather bed - you fall into it and it catches you.

I'm definitely not an outsider artist. I'm very much an insider artist. I get written about in art magazines, and I'm not, like, in a mental institution. I'm a regular guy who went to art school.

Good art doesn't really have an expiration date on it. That's something to be happy about, if you're making art.

I believe that sensory pleasure should take precedence over intellectual pleasure in art and architecture.

There is much to learn from architecture before it became an expert's art.

Mankind is divided into two classes: those who, being artificial, praise nature, and those who, being natural, praise art.

The whole art of war consists in getting at what is on the other side of the hill.

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty-a beauty cold and austere ... yet sublimely pure and capable of stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.

Art brings people back to their sensibility as human beings. This is the purpose of art: To bring people together and bring back the humanity as well.

Art is a way of showing greater fairness to things than is customary.

We mystify the art of moviemaking, but it's not amystical science. You take a good screenplay, put a group togetherand you hammer it out.