Art Quotes

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art o social life.

It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.

China is an old nation with a colourful history. Its booming economy has triggered an appetite and a curiosity around the world for its art and culture, one that continues to grow. I can, however, tell people that it is a show with no actor.

One might not think of light as a matter of fact, but I do. And it is, as I said, as plain and open and direct an art as you will ever find.

I also had a tremendous passion for art and read a lot.

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody.

Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.

There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private.

I don't think art is a goal orientated business. I don't do things for the challenges, I only do them because I love them, I'm not really a goal orientated, achiever type of person.

I'm not as much a history person as an art person, but I mean, you can read history through art.

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

That's something lacking in a lot of modern-day families - just talking. It's almost a lost art form.

Art is the signature of civilizations.

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science; the leading edge in beauty is in high art.

It's often difficult for us to act compassionately, but sacred art eases the difficulty by ennobling us.

It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.

Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art.

The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.

We are concerned with the relationship between art and life. Contemporary art is only intelligible in terms of its relationship to our life.

The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

I like science and I love gym. Oh, and I like art, but I'm really bad at it. I'm just a terrible drawer. I can't draw a circle. Even with a ruler, I can't draw a straight line.