Art Quotes

I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.

The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you.

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.

I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire.

Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

And finally, no matter how good the science gets, there are problems that inevitably depend on judgement, on art, on a feel for financial markets.

One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.

There are people who claim to be instinctive cooks, who never follow recipes or weigh anything at all. All I can say is they're not very fussy about what they eat. For me, cooking is an exact art and not some casual game.

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

It's a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you don't have to work, you are left with the horror of facing your own lack of imagination and your own emptiness. A devastating possibility when finally time is your own.

Opera is one of the most important art forms. It should be listened to and appreciated by everyone.

I received from my experience in Japan an incredible sense of respect for the art of creating, not just the creative product. We're all about the product. To me, the process was also an incredibly important aspect of the total form.

I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.

Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

When I turned 30, due to my father's heart history and my family genetics, I vowed to start seeing a cardiologist every year and just really be proactive and take my own heart health into my own hands.

In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know what that meant. I think I thought it meant that I would be in a situation different than the one that I was in.

The orbit of human vision has widened and art has annexed fresh territories that were formerly denied to it.

Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.

It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political.

Art for me is like breathing.

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

I think that films or indeed any art work should be made in a way that they are infinitely viewable; so that you could go back to it time and time again, not necessarily immediately but over a space of time, and see new things in it, or new ways of looking at it.

Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters.

But since the world, which thou art to strive against, is not without thee, but within thee, it follows, that it is also to be conquered not without, but within thee.