Art Quotes

Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.

When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.

You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.

The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art.

I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

They certainly aren't connected with the old geometric art. My work isn't geometric in that sense.

Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.

I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if that's what you'd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other.

If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.

The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.

Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.

The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact.

Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.

The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.

Blest is that government where no art thrives.

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many.

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

I can do web, comic books, macrame, art.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.

A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.

What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part in my art.

I'll dabble here and there in different forms of the art, but the label has me locked down like a slave so, of course, I'll be doing albums during this time.

The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.

But I had two very special people who helped to take my style to the next level. Thank God for my first MC Cowboy and my first student Grand Wizard Theodore, and to go out after creating this art form and finding everyone jamming to it - that too was pretty scary.

Even Michelangelo got paid for doing the Sistine Chapel. To those artists who say they're doing it for the love of art, I say: Get real.