Art Quotes

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.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

Art is the most beautiful of all lies.

Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help.

What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life.

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little.

Movies are art and the spirit of the movie depends on the creators.

Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion.

One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do you call that Art?

I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person.

As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.

But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.

Minimal art went nowhere.

The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.

There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life.

I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.