Art Quotes

It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work.

There is nothing new in art except talent.

I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published.

The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information.

You know, there's a saying in art that in order to be universal you must be specific. So I think every artist feels that he is dealing with specific things but that it also has significance universally.

I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

At work people are expected to be at the beck and call of employers all the time. You have blackberries and other things, and they just don't leave you alone. People have less time just to drop into an art gallery.

A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.

I am planning a one-man art show of original Batman oil paintings that I will show in New York City.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

But only art and music have the power to bring peace.

The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.

Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!

If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.

In art economy is always beauty.

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.

In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.

One does not set out with the idea that I've just had a great idea and now I'm going to go and carry it out. Almost all art that's made like that doesn't go anywhere.

But I, Caesar, have not sought to amass wealth by the practice of my art, having been rather contented with a small fortune and reputation, than desirous of abundance accompanied by a want of reputation.

Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.

People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of Happiness' by the Dalai Lama.

Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.

The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of one's own, in one's relation to the tool, the material and the colors.

Good art however "immoral" is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

This new art made a deep impression on me, and I began to study it ardently.