Art Quotes
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I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.
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Critics, mathematicians, scientists and busybodies want to classify everything, marking the boundaries and limits... In art, there is room for all possibilities.
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I had no idea what to expect moving to New York. It's embarrassing to say, but I didn't even realize that people bought contemporary art... that people actually paid for it... I know that's really dumb. I was really naive. I had no idea artists made money.
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Whether I get adequate attention or not, people here do know the work I have been doing systematically and without compromise for over 40 years. I get tired of people making excuses for guys who don't continue the art because they can't make a living.
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One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
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There hasn't been anything real since grunge. That was the last movement led by music or an art form.
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Whenever a work's structure is intentionally one of its own themes, another of its themes is art.
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My art is grounded in the belief of one universal energy which runs through everything: from insect to man, from man to spectre, from spectre to plant from plant to galaxy. My works are the irrigation veins of this universal fluid. Through them ascend the ancestral sap, the original beliefs, the primordial accumulations, the unconscious thoughts that animate the world
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The idea of turning an album into a living piece of art and adding new installations is really intriguing. It expands the journey.
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I'd rather do anything than make commercial art. I didn't go to school for art. Making art has certain advantages for me but they would never be in commercial direction.
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Magic touches people in the way great art does. It lets them see the world with new eyes.
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At culinary school, none of the things we use to define ourselves outside that world - actor, producer, student - none of that matters. It's a magical art form.
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The love of art.. ..reconciles us to our lined faces and white hear. Berthe Morisot was 40 years then
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For me, art, and especially music, exist to elevate us as far as possible above everyday existence.
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These days I am obsessed by sculpture! I believe I have glimpsed a complete renovation of that mummified art.
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Every great work of art ... is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life.
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I fight pain, anxiety, and fear every day, and the only method I have found that relieves my illness is to keep creating art. I followed the thread of art and somehow discovered a path that would allow me to live.
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I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.
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I took on the math-intensive art form of holography and, in my early 20s, traveled the world, living on university fellowships to pursue this esoteric craft. I didn't date much, really - perhaps because I didn't have many hormones, though I didn't know that at the time.
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The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.
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Marketing is the art of seeing (and then creating) what might be interesting to more than our friends
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Zen, per se, is not just an art, it's not just a religion, it's a realisation.
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Art is such a personal experience, I really try to make my own thing.
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Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't.