Art Quotes

Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.

I think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean?

Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution towards the improvement and enrichment of human life and it is these pursuits that we students are engaged in.

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art student and an acting student and behaved as most young actors did - meaning that there was no such thing as a good actor, 'cause you yourself hadn't shown up yet.

The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.

Fairly early in my career, I had a passion for wine just as a consumer, and I started to learn about the whole process, starting with a piece of raw ground, and ending up with a work of art in a bottle.

Originality is the art of concealing your source.

More people are exposed to movies than to most other forms of art.

My favorite books, art pieces, films, and music, always have something jarring about them.

Back then, I didn't have a big organization around me. I was just a kid with a guitar, traveling around. My responsibility basically was to the art, and I had extra time on my hands. There is no extra time now. There isn't enough time.

Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

There was very little art in my childhood.

Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.

It's only at this age that I can say the word 'art' without flinching.

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

The course of Nature is the art of God.

If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.

We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.

I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.

When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.

I'm not an exhibitionist. But, honestly, for my art I'll do anything almost. I'll go there.

I've been taking art classes for a couple of years; I love to draw.

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.