Art Quotes

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.

Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.

For when it is the good that is under consideration, and the ethical object is predominant, truth must be considered more in reference to art than science, if, that is, unity is to be preserved in the work generally.

I am a real person that cares about his art and cares about what he's doing - I have a heart and a soul and want to touch people and give.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.

Undeniably the American art form, too. And yet more and more, we see films made that diminish the American experience and example. And sometimes trash it completely.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.

I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.

The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that.

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.