Art Quotes

The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.

Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't.

I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

They're not poodles, they're art.

When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die.

Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you.

But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of work it means there's a potential for other people to understand that a lot of things are possible with a sustained effort and that the broadening of experiences is possible and I think that's all art can be.

The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it.

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.

The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you.

Remember the great adversity of art or anything else is a hurried life.

The talent is always there and art is cyclical. I'm optimistic.

The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

Art is I; science is we.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

Basically, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste, and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator.

I guess tennis is my main art, but fashion is definitely very close.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Acting is an art and a science and there is more to me then that young blonde kid.

Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting.

I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it.

I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.