Art Quotes

Art is when things appear rounded.

I love the art form of songwriting. I get to carry a lot of vibes to a lot of people. My songs are all about the human condition, and people will be able to find themselves in my songs.

The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it.

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.

When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation.

Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the time. I looked at magazines, I'd practice in front of the mirror and I'd ask photographers about the best angles. I can now pull out a smile at will.

When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.

I think about my work every minute of the day.

Well Washington DC what are you going to do. They think the capitol steps are the state of the art in comedy. You try to drag them into the 20th century let alone the 21st and they refuse to come with you.

Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.

Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization.

Growing up going to Christian school and the concept that you're born a sinner and you don't really have a choice to change who you are has been hammered into my head and created the entire reason why I made art and made a band and made records called 'Antichrist Superstar.'

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.

Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.

I make my films because I'm affected by a situation, by something that makes me want to reflect on it, that lends itself to an artistic reflection. I always aim to look directly at what I'm dealing with. I think it's a task of dramatic art to confront us with things that in the entertainment industry are usually swept under the rug.

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

Hitting is an art, but not an exact science.

There's always been a struggle with filmmakers between art and industry, and you have to find a balance.

It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work.

There is nothing new in art except talent.

I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published.

The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information.

You know, there's a saying in art that in order to be universal you must be specific. So I think every artist feels that he is dealing with specific things but that it also has significance universally.

I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

At work people are expected to be at the beck and call of employers all the time. You have blackberries and other things, and they just don't leave you alone. People have less time just to drop into an art gallery.

A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.

I am planning a one-man art show of original Batman oil paintings that I will show in New York City.