Art Quotes

People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.

I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.

I love putting the music together. It's like art.

The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.

At that time, the academic orientation was rather technical contrary to that of the university, where art theory is very important. The teachers were renowned artists and among the best of that time.

I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.

A picture is a poem without words.

Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities.

By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student of early culture proposing that the crude contemporary art of the early Babylonians is the product of a civilization earlier than that of the Nile.

Any excuse to live in New York and do art. Has to be one of the most rewarding experiences in the world.

People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.

To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes ah, that is where the art resides.

Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind.

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

People in misery is what most important in art.

My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.

I paint with shapes.

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

I am an artist, art has no color and no sex.

The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.

When taxidermy is done well it's an amazing piece of art.

Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.

If advertising is not an official or state art, it is nonetheless clearly art.

You have to make a choice when you start to sing and decide whether you want to service the music, and be at the top of your art, or if you want to be a very popular tenor.

Salesmanship, too, is an art; the perfection of its technique requires study and practice.

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.

Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't.