Art Quotes

All art is quite useless.

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

When I got saved, God became my art agent.

A lot of art and visual crafts are based on appropriating things.

We're going to shoot one Polaroid per show. I'm going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once it develops with my signature on it, it's worth a fortune. I'll make this a work of magic warlock art.

Education is the art of making man ethical.

It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

The web of life is a beautiful and meaningless dance. The web of life is a process with a moving goal. The web of life is a perfectly finished work of art right where I am sitting now.

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.

Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.

The role of art in society differs for every artist.

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

There were some extremely good teachers there that were great artists really in their own right. It was actually very hard to concentrate on getting down to going any work being an art student especially when it's a flighty thing at best.

In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.

Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.

I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down.

I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.

My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing.

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

If I didn't choose art, I would have become an astronomer.

He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is obtained. If we ought to do so in things natural and earthly, how much more then in spiritual?

Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.

Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.