Art Quotes

This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in art.

Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.

In art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist.

The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.

Art is the proper task of life.

People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

You can use your means in a good and bad way. In German-speaking art, we had such a bad experience with the Third Reich, when stories and images were used to tell lies. After the war, literature was careful not to do the same, which is why writers began to reflect on the stories they told and to make readers part of their texts. I do the same.

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

Art will never be able to exist without nature.

And so many of the kinds of labels you get stuck with don't really tell the story; Progressive, Art Rock, Noise Music, Downtown - it ends up being a struggle to stay out of debates that other people are having around you.

What a beautiful art, but what a wretched profession.

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

I think we're much smarter than we were. Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another purpose to it.

I wish to lead a life free from care, and I see that I shall be unhappy if I cannot always work at my art.

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.

I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

I'm very manipulative towards directors. My theory is that everyone on the set is directing the film, we're all receiving art messages from the universe on how we should do the film.

How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

I don't know why a computer game can't be an art form just as a puppet show or an opera is. I'm still interested in computer games as something I would like to work on someday.

Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable experience for me.

I was never that kid who grew up in New York and was always at the arthouse watching important films. I was the kid who grew up in the Midwest where there weren't any art films, and I watched TV. And that was really the medium that affected me and that I fell in love with.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.

The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.

All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.