Art Quotes

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.

The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.

Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?

I've been doing it all along, ever since I got out of art school.

As much as we'd like to believe that our work is great and that we're infallible, we're not. Hollywood movies are made for the audience. These are not small European art films we're making.

At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution.

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

I always wanted to be a stay-at-home dad making art, making movies.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

I believe in advertisement and media completely. My art and my personal life are based in it. I think that the art world would probably be a tremendous reservoir for everybody involved in advertising.

For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

I've been slagged off completely by the art world.

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing.