Art Quotes

The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw.

The visual information of art history is going to students seamlessly, without the enormous trouble those of us who are older had when we studied art history many years ago.

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.

My grandmother lived to be 100 years old. Her grandmother was a slave, yet she was a college graduate in the Spellman class of 1917. She taught art for 50 years and she saved her Social Security checks for her children's education.

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

Jazz is the art of thinking out loud.

It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.

I recommend the art of slow reading.

The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

You see a lot of these movies that are really just 90-minute video games. The effects are incredible. I get it: There's an art to that, terrific. I'm not interested in it, but there's an art to that I suppose.

The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.

Reps once took chances on art, History's most treasured musicians were believed in and cultivated to reach their potential. Today, it would be difficult for those musicians to get deals.

Being a former dancer, classical dancer, it informed me as a human being just in terms of the grace I guess. Ballet is a very graceful form of art. You also become very aware of your body and your mind and your body is working in conjunction. That kind of helps you in acting as well. It's not only using your mind, it's like making your mind communicate this character into your body so that you can bring it to life and physicalize it.

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.

Art, that great undogmatized church.

That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art.

Instead of art I have taught philosophy. Though technique for me is a big word, I never have taught how to paint. All my doing was to make people to see.

The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art.

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.

Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity.

I just really wanted to do art, except when I was taking those photographs of people I would make the clothes that I would photograph them in so I could control the whole thing.