Art Quotes

Most of the musicians that I know almost to the man everybody uses Apple computers. They've thought of the steps that you're going to think of when you're trying to create your thing. And that's where the tools get invented to make better art.

I take this art very seriously and passionately. I love what I do. You can't help but grow. That's not to say you don't make mistakes or make bad choices, but that's part of the art. Painters paint bad paintings.

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two.

You must in all Airs follow the strength, spirit, and disposition of the horse, and do nothing against nature; for art is but to set nature in order, and nothing else.

I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.

Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

Unless you are a born connoisseur of art, you will not be able to judge by yourself why certain art is superior to other art.

Well, in any art there are a lot of technical things that you can get to like.

I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the art of something. And writing was very private.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

I'd like to work on putting art programs back in schools.

In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.

But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's not about marketing.

Art thou the King of the Jews?

Filmmaking can be a fine art.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.

I kind of just lucked into and fell into the other profession. It was really just an outgrowth of the fact that when I was in art school, I had no money whatsoever.

There is a small world of people who are very interested in contemporary art and a slightly bigger world of people who look at contemporary art. But then there is a much larger world that doesn't realise how influential art is on things that they actually look at.

Ah, well, do I wish that we lived in a world where gender didn't figure so prominently? Of course. Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.