Art Quotes

I was never into smart college boy music.

I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.

I remember being an art student and going to the Whitney in 1974 to see the exhibition of Jim Nutt, the Chicago imagist. It was then I transferred to school in Chicago, all because of that show.

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

I did study the art of being a barber because I wanted to figure out what my routine would be. Do you start in the front or back? Top or bottom? Swivel the chair or walk around? What I did discover is there's no such thing as the perfect haircut!

And luckily, therefore the good old days return. The traditional art of driving counts again, and it is all about good tactics, skills and reflexes instead of simple power.

Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.

I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.

On my first days here I did not start work immediately but, as planned, I took it easy for a few days - flicked through books, studied Japanese art a little.

Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.

In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.

No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the totality of the artist's body; you can really lean on it.

Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.

I'm not making art, I'm making sushi.

That was the impetus for me to do music or art, because I knew if I didn't try when I was young, then I would get to be in my 40's and I'd be really unhappy that I hadn't.

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

If you believe in your art, and you love what you do, that energy will go out, and people will respond.

The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

It's not enough for me to cover theater, I have to throw myself around every other art form, and do so thoroughly and relentlessly.

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.