Art Quotes

It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.

I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have, and it's cathartic as well, because I create art out of anger, something positive out of something negative.

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art.

It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.

I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist.

MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.

With today's fast films, you can light the way your eye sees the scene. You can abuse the film and create subtleties in contrast with light and exposure, diffusion and filters. That's what makes it an art.

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.

For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.

I feel like I have at least begun to make a contribution, but my most significant concern has to do with whether my actual art will be preserved for future generations or be erased.

But I think you have to - whatever the environment looks like, it does enter into people's art work one way or another; it's very remote or it isn't. It's remote in my work but it has to have a certain degree of ordinariness.

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and to new consciousness, and expand our senses, our perception, our intelligence, our sensibility, then they will become interested in this music.

Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

To choose art means to turn one's back on the world, or at least on certain of its distractions.

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

Deterrence is the art of producing, in the mind of the enemy, the fear to attack.

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

I'm interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think it's the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really can't be this way.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.

By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.