Art Quotes
In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession.
Alberto Giacometti
You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
Carly Fiorina
It is a peculiar art form, but I think it's a necessary art form - and I do believe it's a noble art form.
Paul Conrad
In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was nearly a coherent thing-for a minute.
Howard Hodgkin
There's good art and there's bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass showed us with the Bourne films that it's possible to make an action film with a political, social conscience.
Joe Wright
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.
Gustave Courbet
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.
Ralph Allen
I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.
Craig Ferguson
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.
James H. Breasted
Any excuse to live in New York and do art. Has to be one of the most rewarding experiences in the world.
Tommy Chong
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.
Vladimir Nabokov
The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes ah, that is where the art resides.
Artur Schnabel
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.
Rockwell Kent
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.
Pablo Picasso
My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.
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