Art Quotes

I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.

I'm most embarrassed at my art shows, even though I don't show it.

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators.

Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.

Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary.

Managing bottom-up change is its own art.

Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life.

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.

Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

I went to art school for fine art and then I started doing performance art, and then I started making fun of performance art, and it turned into comedy.

Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.

I wish my work would be recognized by a larger crowd of people as more art than be stuck with the cartoonist label for the rest of my life.

Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.

I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.

In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know what that meant.

Angela King is a lovely person with a tremendous sense of art.

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

Art is commenting on what's going on around you in your life.

Stage performing is a dying art form.

The temple of art is built in words.

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made.

There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing.

Performance art can involve the audience with taste, smell and sounds not available with electronic media and not practical with conventional theater. This is due to the usually small audience.

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.