Art Quotes

I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the art of something. And writing was very private.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

I'd like to work on putting art programs back in schools.

In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.

But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's not about marketing.

Art thou the King of the Jews?

Filmmaking can be a fine art.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.

I kind of just lucked into and fell into the other profession. It was really just an outgrowth of the fact that when I was in art school, I had no money whatsoever.

There is a small world of people who are very interested in contemporary art and a slightly bigger world of people who look at contemporary art. But then there is a much larger world that doesn't realise how influential art is on things that they actually look at.

Ah, well, do I wish that we lived in a world where gender didn't figure so prominently? Of course. Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

Now, there are so many movies, so many festivals, and so many awards going on, each judged with each other, like your work is worse than others and that's not fair. How can you tell what's best and what's worst from these awards? We're talking about art.

We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art.

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art o social life.

It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.

China is an old nation with a colourful history. Its booming economy has triggered an appetite and a curiosity around the world for its art and culture, one that continues to grow. I can, however, tell people that it is a show with no actor.

One might not think of light as a matter of fact, but I do. And it is, as I said, as plain and open and direct an art as you will ever find.

I also had a tremendous passion for art and read a lot.

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody.

Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.