Art Quotes

Every good painter paints what he is.

Jackie Chan is a very good comedy/martial arts star. He does one kind of martial arts that Jet Li doesn't know how to do and Jet Li does a martial art that Jackie Chan doesn't know how to do. You can both go to two Chinese restaurants, but both can have different kinds of food.

A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have yet established.

Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!

Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.

I feel like contemporary art is everywhere now and with the rise of the internet, it's so much easier to see what artists are doing and to follow their careers.

It's strange because even in the vaudeville days, ventriloquists were never the main attraction. They were the guys brought out to stand in front of the curtain while sets were being changed. Ventriloquism wasn't even celebrated as an art until Edgar Bergen came along in the 1930s.

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.

Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.

I like music because it's the only invisible art form.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the country. For more than 60 years, anyone with a dissenting opinion has been suppressed. Chinese art is merely a product: it avoids any meaningful engagement. There is no larger context. Its only purpose is to charm viewers with its ambiguity.

All art is quite useless.

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

When I got saved, God became my art agent.

A lot of art and visual crafts are based on appropriating things.

We're going to shoot one Polaroid per show. I'm going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once it develops with my signature on it, it's worth a fortune. I'll make this a work of magic warlock art.

Education is the art of making man ethical.

It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

The web of life is a beautiful and meaningless dance. The web of life is a process with a moving goal. The web of life is a perfectly finished work of art right where I am sitting now.

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.

Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.

The role of art in society differs for every artist.

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

There were some extremely good teachers there that were great artists really in their own right. It was actually very hard to concentrate on getting down to going any work being an art student especially when it's a flighty thing at best.