Art Quotes

For me, art is about learning and about living with people. It's alive.

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. So, you've got to get bizarre. This is an artist's purpose - to break away from the recycled. Performance art can do that.

And then we moved to New Jersey and I went to the Art Students League.

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make.

Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to make that cheque, nobody putting art in their albums any more.

I started rapping before anybody had ever bought a car from it. It was truly about the art form and the culture, more so than now, where it's a successful way to make money. Back then you had to be doing it because you liked it.

Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

I don't make a division between an art film and commercial art.

You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.

Whatever art form you're working in, it's crucial to see it clearly, to feel it clearly, and not to worry about the results, or how someone else will see it.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.

I don't think geometric art is... I don't like to call it that. I don't think it's any more pure than pop art or anything else. It doesn't have anything to do with purity.

The first, that their pretensions to this possession of an art properly so called in their art of speaking are entirely unfounded; and the second, that they are involved in a profound mistake in their confusion of the good with the pleasant.

It occurred to me that every work of art is a synecdoche, there's no way around it. Every creative work that someone does can only represent an aspect of the whole of something. I can't think of an exception to that.

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

There's room for the Gap, but the joy of dressing is an art.

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.

If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best.

The system is the work of art; the visual work of art is the proof of the System. The visual aspect can't be understood without understanding the system. It isn't what it looks like but what it is that is of basic importance.

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.

The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.