Art Quotes

I always enjoyed art history because, growing up in California, my exposure was limited, and it was a new experience. To learn the history of art opened up certain things to me, made me see. It intrigued me.

To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete.

Art is the objectification of feeling.

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.

As I discovered music, especially Rock 'n Roll, new territory was opened to me. I was lured by the unbridled rhythm of this art form. It was like gasoline on the fire of my youthful spirit.

It's a shame because we experienced probably the greatest thing - in art, in pop - we'll ever do. And it would be good to sit around and talk about it.

I'm all about supporting anyone whose art is also the way they make their living.

To me, art supplies are always okay to buy.

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.

When there were financial difficulties they still managed to provide us with music and art lessons.

In order to understand what they need to understand, in order to write what they write, they have to be free. And yet, they aren't ever free. They are not free because they are not free of the constrictions their art puts on them.

What is art but a way of seeing?

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you're bankrupt.

But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible.

No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.

I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

For too long the world has failed to recognise that the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement are about fine athletics and fine art.

Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.

I want the Arabic Granada, that which is art, which is all that seems to me beauty and emotion.

I've always loved movies, art and clothes.

Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.

The picture is a self-sufficient work of art. It is not connected to anything outside.

Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself.

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.