Art Quotes

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

I don't know much about modern art, but I guess I am modern art.

Most Glorious and eternal Majesty, Thou art righteous and holy in all thou dost to the sons of men, though thou hast suffered men to condemn Thy servant, Thy servant will not condemn Thee.

Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.

To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.

One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.

I choose films for their artistic value. I don't need a mansion or a Jaguar. When I leave this Earth, I won't take any money with me. All I will leave behind will be my art.

Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of music for decades, if not centuries.

For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.

So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right.

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.

And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when you rush through you will not miss the moment which you might have had, or might still have.

Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.

A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind.

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

Art is an investigation.

I think you learn a lot about a country from its art. To me, it's part of the drama of life. It teaches you that there are places, moments and incidents in other cultures that genuinely have a life of their own.

In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been.

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.

The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.