Art Quotes

Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.

In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.

It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.

Catharsis isn't art. You can't rely on catharsis to get a laugh. Because guess what? People do laugh when something's shocking, but that is, to me, the absolute fakest of laughs. That's not something that sustains a television series, or a movie, or even 45 minutes of a stand-up set at Carolines.

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

Diplomacy, n. is the art of letting somebody else have your way.

Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.

Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

Martial art is a form of expression, an expression from your inner self to your hands and legs.

Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of my involvement with public art is a continuation of wall drawings.

You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content.

I will never forget experiencing Venice for the first time. It feels like you are transported to another time - the art, music, food and pure romance in the air is like no other place.

There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.

There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation.

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.

Things are beautiful if you love them.

What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort. He hates everything that wants to draw him out of his acquired and secured position and that disturbs him. Thus he loves the house and hates art.

It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

My art became very public.

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.

I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'

Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.