Art Quotes

My goal is to make fine art, and fine art comes from the soul. If you have virtuosity and facility, you can take and create something of significance.

Movies are visual, aural, they involve people, and life, and ideas and art, they are so elastic. They can hold anything, withstand everything, and make you feel anything. Other arts can do that, but movies are the only ones that can incorporate other media into cinema.

The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.

My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.

I don't think anyone has a right to possess anything he doesn't love - art or anything else.

While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

Attack is only one half of the art of boxing.

Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness.

When I was younger, I had no interest. But after I went to Paris to see the collections for the first time a few years ago, they made a huge impression on me. I realized that fashion is an art form, like acting or painting.

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.

Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.

Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.

Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

When I went to college, I wasn't interested in fashion anymore - I was interested in art.

I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders.

Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures.

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.

If the work of art is to continue pursuing the vision of both being in and of the world but nevertheless in some fashion being more than just one more object to the mounting clutter, this is the specific point, I think, where this must be assured.

My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me.

No, I never had any dreams. The process of art is a dream in itself. The artist just doesn't... you work out something. It's yours. You don't have to go to sleep to do that. You do that on the canvas.

We do this for the art, not the adulation. I'd rather our music get liked and we get ignored. I don't want to be adored for anything other than the music.

Comics, at least in periodical form, exist almost entirely free of any pretense; the critical world of art hardly touches them, and they're 100% personal.

I collect a lot of art.

I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.