Art Quotes

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

I believe in advertisement and media completely. My art and my personal life are based in it. I think that the art world would probably be a tremendous reservoir for everybody involved in advertising.

For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

I've been slagged off completely by the art world.

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing.

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.

I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art.

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

In the early '90s, when those little art films started coming out, we were introduced to Quentin Tarantino and guys like that, and independent cinema was something that everyone wanted to be a part of.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.

How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?

I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.

Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.

The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.

We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity but that comprehensive and harmonizing unity with individual variety which can be developed among people politically and socially free.

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.

I'm looking to evolve the concept of the new renaissance artist, taking the world by storm through the art of public display and demonstration, with technical savvy, using cell phones and computers.

What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation.

The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.

I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

Entertainment and art are not isolated.

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn't have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social 'yak yaks.'