Art Quotes

There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning.

Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.

The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art.

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

Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.

Senator Helms might very well do that. I would point out to him that we in the art world are not necessarily in the business of making controversial art.

Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.

My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

Well, we were all in high school and we got together, and in college - we were in art college together.

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview.

I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history.

Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another.

What I'm doing is art - it's low-brow art but there's a magic in that.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Right now I am preparing for another art exhibit in November in Palm Desert.

I'm trying to get every man involved in art, into experimental music, or painting, or novel-writing.

What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.

In art the best is good enough.

I, in the end, make art for myself.

I get strength from my art - all the paintings I own are powerful.

And in fact, I think the more we start to worship perfection the more soul leaks out of art.

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

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.

The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.

From an art perspective, I don't know how you get better than 'Beetlejuice.' In terms of originality and a look, it's 100% unique.

I'm a real person that cares about his art and cares about what he's doing. I have a heart and a soul and I want to touch people and give.