Art Quotes

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

Art will never be able to exist without nature.

And so many of the kinds of labels you get stuck with don't really tell the story; Progressive, Art Rock, Noise Music, Downtown - it ends up being a struggle to stay out of debates that other people are having around you.

What a beautiful art, but what a wretched profession.

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

I think we're much smarter than we were. Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another purpose to it.

I wish to lead a life free from care, and I see that I shall be unhappy if I cannot always work at my art.

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.

I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

I'm very manipulative towards directors. My theory is that everyone on the set is directing the film, we're all receiving art messages from the universe on how we should do the film.

How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

I don't know why a computer game can't be an art form just as a puppet show or an opera is. I'm still interested in computer games as something I would like to work on someday.

Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable experience for me.

I was never that kid who grew up in New York and was always at the arthouse watching important films. I was the kid who grew up in the Midwest where there weren't any art films, and I watched TV. And that was really the medium that affected me and that I fell in love with.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.

The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.

All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical.

It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.

Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

Performance art can be produced in a coffee house setting.