Art Quotes

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

Art is I; science is we.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

Basically, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste, and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator.

I guess tennis is my main art, but fashion is definitely very close.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.

Acting is an art and a science and there is more to me then that young blonde kid.

Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting.

I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it.

I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.

Art is science made clear.

At the art college in Edinburgh someone arranged for some London groups to come up and play. I was in a supporting band, with Bernie Green I think. Derek Bailey was one of the visiting musicians. He seemed to like my playing and asked me to come down to London.

For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.

There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.

I love to collect modern art.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

The only albatross is the hurt you divine from what people say about your art.

As Mayor, I will fully support my Arts Commission and its professional selection committees so that they can commission a full range of public art that is daring and, when appropriate, daringly traditional.

The role of art in society differs for every artist.

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.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

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