Art Quotes

Shapewear is the canvas and the clothes are the art.

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

My life is art. Its how I express God.

When I was an art student in the early 60's before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist.

But then when he left, I realized that it was harder to write songs and feel spiritually connected to art and music as a band. When he came back I felt it again, instantaneously.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe.

Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.

Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.

Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.

I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.

I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art.

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.

Although even when I am being idle I have plenty of food for thought both early and late - thoughts both about and not about art.

I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's this period and that period.

My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them. There is no such thing as bad art.

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.