Art Quotes

I think you learn a lot about a country from its art. To me, it's part of the drama of life. It teaches you that there are places, moments and incidents in other cultures that genuinely have a life of their own.

In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been.

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.

The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.

No, my degree was history, not the practice of art! I can't draw to save my life you know.

Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.

I think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean?

Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution towards the improvement and enrichment of human life and it is these pursuits that we students are engaged in.

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art student and an acting student and behaved as most young actors did - meaning that there was no such thing as a good actor, 'cause you yourself hadn't shown up yet.

The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.

Fairly early in my career, I had a passion for wine just as a consumer, and I started to learn about the whole process, starting with a piece of raw ground, and ending up with a work of art in a bottle.

Originality is the art of concealing your source.

More people are exposed to movies than to most other forms of art.

My favorite books, art pieces, films, and music, always have something jarring about them.

Back then, I didn't have a big organization around me. I was just a kid with a guitar, traveling around. My responsibility basically was to the art, and I had extra time on my hands. There is no extra time now. There isn't enough time.

Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

There was very little art in my childhood.

Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.

It's only at this age that I can say the word 'art' without flinching.

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

The course of Nature is the art of God.

If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.

We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.

I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.