Art Quotes

• I often told the fanatics of realism that there is no such thing as realism in art: it only exists in the mind of the observer. Art is a symbol, a thing conjuring up reality in our mental image. That is why I don't see any contradiction between abstract and figurative art either.

  

  Antoni Tapies
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Why

• I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if that's what you'd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other.

  

  Bill Griffith
  • School
  • Art

• You always feel quite vulnerable when you're naked on a set. You feel quite silly, actually. And with the green screen around you, it's not that sexy. But, it looks stunning. It's art. It's not vulgar. It's not indecent. It's not realistic. It's beautiful, I think.

  

  Eva Green
  • Sexy
  • Screen
  • Naked

• I have a lot of good role models in my family for things off the court - like my older sister, who's a lawyer. I don't like writing papers, but she's helped me a lot. It's nice to have an art and business background because they tie together perfectly.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Family

• New York City is one of the greatest places on the planet. You have the best in food, art, theatre, and definitely people-watching.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • People
  • Food
  • City

• Well, we will indeed see how things develop and what will become of our art! In any case, artists should remain apolitical and only think of their work and dedicate all their energies to this work.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Work
  • Art

• Art is life, plus caprice.

  

  William Ernest Hocking
  • Life
  • Plus
  • Caprice

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

  

  Logic
  • Art
  • Science
  • Logic

• Art saved me. It may sound corny, but it's true.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Art
  • True
  • Saved

• There are some people whose Twitter feeds are works of art. They intuitively understand how much of themselves to put out there.

  

  Jess Walter
  • People
  • Art

• Mankind has failed miserably in its effort to devise a rational system of government. ... The art of government is the exclusive possession of quacks and frauds. It has been so since the earliest days, and it will probably remain so until the end of time.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Time
  • Art
  • Effort

• I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art.

  

  David Foster Wallace
  • Art
  • Today

• These days, newish art can be priced between $10,000 and $25,000. When I tell artists that a new painting by a newish artist should go for around $1,200, they look at me like I'm a flesh-eating virus.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Art
  • Painting

• I have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful as you can.

  

  James Mercer Broken Bells
  • Art
  • Beautiful
  • Ethics

• We are moving beyond the non-fiction novel to different kinds of narrative art, different forms of cognition. Loaded with moral and political point, narrative has been recalibrated to record, honour, and protest the latest historically specific instance of futility and mess.

  

  Geoff Dyer
  • Different
  • Political
  • Moving

• what society requires from art ... is that it function as an early warning system.

  

  Elizabeth Janeway
  • Society
  • Function
  • Art Is

• I took photos from 1976 to when I left in 1993, primarily for Interview and a column I had called "Bob Colacello's Out" which Andy had conceived of. I've never taken a picture since, not even with my phone! It just felt too Andy Warhol to keep going around town taking photographs. And I never really thought of doing anything with them after I left the magazine until this great Art Director Sam Shahid about for or five years ago asked where all of the old photos were.

  

  Bob Colacello
  • Great
  • Taken
  • Picture

• I love the song 'Picasso Baby,' and I think the performance art piece was brilliant. I love that fact that Jay Z is continuing to raise the bar on hip hop.

  

  Adrian Younge
  • Art
  • Song
  • Baby

• Anyone who doesn't know anything about art knows the name of at least one artist.

  

  Dasha Zhukova
  • Art

• I have a studio at my house, and there is a sister studio for Disney which is about 45 minutes away, and we haven't dropped a beat. In the art of animation and voiceover work, you can pretty much work from anywhere.

  

  Jodi Benson
  • Work
  • Pretty
  • House

• How much the work of an artist owes to an art movement to which he belongs can never be determined exactly, if only because the movement derives its character from the individual creations of its members.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Work
  • Art
  • Character

• If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Great
  • True
  • Poverty

• There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words.

  

  J. G. Holland
  • Nature
  • Words
  • Form

• Perfection bores me, in art, in music; most of all, in people. Luckily, perfection is rare.

  

  Vicki Baum
  • Music
  • Perfection
  • Bores

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