Art Quotes

The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, "then" what do we do?

I grew up in an artists' community in New York, in a building that was government-subsidised for artists. No one made any money, but they made art for the sake of art.

A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.

People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.

I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

But, when I had this feeling and started painting sacred art, as I had this feeling to do, then it come to me: my problem is I'll get a lot of criticism and another problem is my work's not good enough to sell.

The fact is that even art is subject to fashion.

Now, to describe the process of the Wrapped Reichstag, which went from 1971 to '95, there is an entire book about that, because each one of our projects has its own book. The book is not an art book, meaning it's not written by an art historian.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it.

The House of Commons is a great unwieldy body, which requires great Art and some Cordials to keep it loyal.

There's a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There's a lot of sex, you know, in art. There's a lot of naked women and men, and there's intrigue, there's fakery. It's a real microcosm of the larger world.

It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

I've loved art for more than 30 years.

We take art, and I love all that. But I also like science for some reason. I just like finding out why things happen.

The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.

People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.

I feel when you walk into somebody's apartment on Fifth Avenue or house in Malibu and you see a Basquiat, a Warhol, a Richard Prince, you say to yourself, '$700,000, $2.2 million, $350,000...' To me that is completely uninteresting. I'd rather go to a house where there's great art and I have no idea who the work is by.

Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.

The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, it makes us move.

Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a very encapsulated form. It disciplines you to cut away extraneous information.

For me, art is about learning and about living with people. It's alive.

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.