Art Quotes

If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.

I went to art school when I was little. I took ballet lessons. I played a little kick ball. I was sort of into everything because I had too much energy and I didn't know where to put it. When I was a preteen, I got into singing, and became really obsessed with it.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

I admire a person who, for the love of art, is able to take off their clothes in front of a camera. But I'm not capable, I'm too cowardly for that.

All the art for Tool is done by the me and the band.

To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.

Even a true artist does not always produce art.

There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art.

All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art.

I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art. Are there no artists who have done erotic pictures?

The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.

When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories.

A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

I love art and fashion.

You should carefully study the Art of Reasoning, as it is what most people are very deficient in, and I know few things more disagreeable than to argue, or even converse with a man who has no idea of inductive and deductive philosophy.

But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that.

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.

Fine art is knowledge made visible.

The artist himself is actually the subject in everything after, say, 1900. Eventually, art becomes so removed from the community that you have to know about the artist before you can even look at the painting, because there is a conceptual idea going on.

To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.

There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them.

A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.

Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.