Art Quotes

My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.

During the '70s I was interested in words and meaning as a way of making art.

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.

Some artists claim praise is irrelevant in measuring the success of art, but I think it's quite relevant. Besides, it makes me feel great.

And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

Remember the great adversity of art or anything else is a hurried life.

The talent is always there and art is cyclical. I'm optimistic.

The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

Art is I; science is we.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

Basically, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste, and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator.

I guess tennis is my main art, but fashion is definitely very close.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.

Acting is an art and a science and there is more to me then that young blonde kid.

Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting.

I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it.

I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.

Art is science made clear.

At the art college in Edinburgh someone arranged for some London groups to come up and play. I was in a supporting band, with Bernie Green I think. Derek Bailey was one of the visiting musicians. He seemed to like my playing and asked me to come down to London.

For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.

There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.

I love to collect modern art.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

The only albatross is the hurt you divine from what people say about your art.

As Mayor, I will fully support my Arts Commission and its professional selection committees so that they can commission a full range of public art that is daring and, when appropriate, daringly traditional.

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.