Art Quotes

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.

The dichotomy between art and industry is totally dysfunctional in terms of film.

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

I cry out for order and find it only in art.

I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master of two art forms. Seriously, you have to be able to draw like a Leonardo da Vinci or a Michelangelo. But also you have to know movement and timing and control that through 24 frames a second.

I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.

Wilder touches all the bases... in some kind of shorthand way. Now that's art.

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

Then I moved down to the Bowery to this building where Debbie Harry lived. It was there that I started combining some clothes for her and continued doing the art and photography.

Whatever is about you that is translated into your art, that's gonna keep you completly original and fresh and I just think that, that's just the best advice I can give, to an artist creatively.

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

I don't get many hecklers now but answering them is an art form in itself.

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics were not worthy of art.

We want people to experience art and think about it. The art reflects our time, it is about our culture.

It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.

I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have, and it's cathartic as well, because I create art out of anger, something positive out of something negative.

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.