The Art Quotes

My Master of Arts degree means nothing at all to these monkeys and I have come to share their indifference.

I don't buy art in order to leave a mark or to be remembered; clutching at immortality is of zero interest to anyone sane.

It is because everything must come to an end that everything is so beautiful.

I decided that I didn't want to spend my time in a liberal arts college.

It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.

Train hard, get good coaching and don't forget that its mixed martial arts. Don't get tied into one style of fighting and focus on multiple disciplines.

As a work of art, it reminds me of a long conversation between two drunks

With the art therapy, as soon as they saw the paper and crayons coming, we couldn't get it out fast enough. And we told them to draw about the tsunami.

Almost every profession has an outstanding training ground. The military has West Point, music has Juilliard, and the culinary arts has The Institute.

Well to be perfectly frank with you I never created art or have done demonstrations for anyone before myself artistically. I always do it to try to push my own envelope to be the best I can be.

When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories.

Beautiful art sells. If it sells itself, it is an idolatrous commodity; if it sells anything else, it is a seductive advertisement.

Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.

Style is the art of getting yourself out of the way, not putting yourself in it.

You know, the history of California art doesn't start until about 1961, and that's when these photographs start. I mean, we have no history out here.

People want to be successful, and they want to be acknowledged for what they do. Sometimes they make really great art and aren't. Historically, the best artists weren't. But their work survived.

So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.

I paint the walls with his blood.

Well, in any art there are a lot of technical things that you can get to like.

Look at every action movie in Hollywood. Every leading man from Spider-Man to Batman to James Bond, 'Bourne Identity', every one of them possesses martial arts skills.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.

The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation.

What an artist is for is to tell us what we see but do not know that we see.

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.

The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.

Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist.

The art of winning in business is in working hard - not taking things too seriously.

It is hard to find beauty in the art of self expression.

Creativity is discontent translated into arts.

Whoever you are, if you know what you're doing, you don't want other people to overtake the merit of your art.

The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.

We must get beyond passions, like a great work of art. In such miraculous harmony. We should learn to love each other so much to live outside of time... detached.

The constancy of sages is nothing but the art of locking up their agitation in their hearts.

The art of putting into play mediocre qualities often begets more reputation than is achieved by true merit.

Individuality realized is the supreme attainment of the human soul, the master-master's work of art. Individuality is sacred.

Art will liberate itself from the needs and desires of men. No longer will we paint a forest ora horseas we like oras theyappear to us, but as they really are.

Discontent is the seed of ethics.

Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven.

Architecture is the king or queen of the arts.

Before the end of Time will be the end of History. Before the end of History will be the end of Art.

Comedy, although it is not one of the fine arts - it's a vulgar art, it's one of the people's arts, it's the spoken word, the writing that goes into it is an art form - it's certainly artistry.

Cookery is naturally the most ancient of the arts, as of all arts it is the most important.

The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.

I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint.

I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it.

Poetry exists partly to undermine the certainties of an accepted intellectual system, by opening a fissure of awareness at which the reality of the unconquered world may enter.

I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody said that she does not look like it, but that does not make any difference, she will, he said.

Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.