Art Quotes

A lot of art and visual crafts are based on appropriating things.

We're going to shoot one Polaroid per show. I'm going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once it develops with my signature on it, it's worth a fortune. I'll make this a work of magic warlock art.

Education is the art of making man ethical.

It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

The web of life is a beautiful and meaningless dance. The web of life is a process with a moving goal. The web of life is a perfectly finished work of art right where I am sitting now.

Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.

The role of art in society differs for every artist.

There were some extremely good teachers there that were great artists really in their own right. It was actually very hard to concentrate on getting down to going any work being an art student especially when it's a flighty thing at best.

In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.

Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.

If I can't find a project that I'm really interested in, I'll just go back to college where I've been studying art history and French. I'm also going to study English and philosophy - the whole curriculum!

Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included... something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. It's a Gigantic project.

In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.

My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star.

The disco sound, you must see, is not art or anything so serious.

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.

It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.

True art tries not to attract attention in order to be noticed.

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.