Art Quotes

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.

No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern.

Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go.

Now, the language that had grown up and formed itself on those principles is what one is dealing with, and the problem is to bring a work of art in that medium into another medium formed on different principles and heard and understood in a different way.

Where thou art, that is home.

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

Criticism really used to hurt me. Most of these critics are usually frustrated artists, and they criticise other people's art because they can't do it themselves. It's a really disgusting job. They must feel horrible inside.

I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.

I'm most embarrassed at my art shows, even though I don't show it.

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators.

Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.

Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary.

Managing bottom-up change is its own art.

Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life.

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.

Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

I went to art school for fine art and then I started doing performance art, and then I started making fun of performance art, and it turned into comedy.

Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.

I wish my work would be recognized by a larger crowd of people as more art than be stuck with the cartoonist label for the rest of my life.

Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.

I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.

In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know what that meant.

Angela King is a lovely person with a tremendous sense of art.

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.