Art Quotes

• The art world is a jungle echoing to the calls of vicious jealousies and ruthless combat between dealers and collectors; but I have been walking in the jungles of business all my life, and fighting tooth and nail for pictures comes as a form of relaxation to me.

  

  Armand Hammer
  • Life
  • World
  • Business

• Art was carrying me a lot of the time. When you're accustomed to playing with Art, and you play with other drummers, it's as if the bottom dropped out.

  

  Benny Green
  • Time
  • Art

• Science is the special province of the ego. And magic and art are the special province of something else. I could name it, but I won't. It prefers to be unnamed

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Magic
  • Ego
  • Special

• I don't think I am going to do pictures which are anything like Renaissance art.

  

  Nan Goldin
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Renaissance

• I love New York City. The energy, the theatre, the art, the food, the people, the parks and streets. But I could say the same of London or Paris, too.

  

  Pierce Brosnan
  • People
  • Energy
  • Food

• Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Serious
  • Person

• Ragtime has about the same amount of respect as comics. And in a way they're similar art forms. Ragtime is highly compositional, and the emotion in the music is built in, whereas in jazz a lot of that emotion comes from the way it's performed.

  

  Chris Ware
  • Music
  • Art
  • Respect

• I did pose for 'Black and White' magazine, a prestigious, artistic publication, several years ago... I did this as a piece of art and make no apologies for the creative decisions I've made as an artist in my 20-year career.

  

  Andrea Thompson
  • Art
  • Career
  • Black

• Art itself cannot be taught, but craftsmanship can. Architects, painters, sculptors are all craftsmen in the original sense of the word. Thus it is a fundamental requirement of all artistic creativity that every student undergo a thorough training in the workshops of all branches of the crafts.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Art
  • Training
  • Creativity

• I would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening... that's the art.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Nature
  • Moving
  • Listening

• I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.

  

  Donald Judd
  • Art

• I'm constantly exposing myself to art and that inspires me.

  

  Dominic Monaghan
  • Art

• Art should never be a slave to commerce, but for all working artists that's exactly what it must be.

  

  Caitlín Rebekah Kiernan
  • Art
  • Should
  • Slave

• 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.

  

  Eric Christian Olsen
  • World
  • School
  • Art

• I live to play music, and hang out with my wife and kid, and hang out with my friends, and discover the world. Read books, watch movies, see art, see the world, meet new people.

  

  Mark Hoppus Blink-182
  • People
  • World
  • Book

• It's the ownership of what's off that's the beauty in art. Its not about being exactly perfect.

  

  Adrian Younge
  • Art
  • Perfect

• Despite the persistent image of the architect as a heroic loner erecting monumental edifices through sheer force of will, the building art has always been a highly cooperative enterprise.

  

  Martin Filler
  • Art
  • Loner

• The blood of my motherland waters a magic plant that cures all ills. That plant is art, and sometimes art needs corruption as a kind of fertilizer.

  

  Alfred de Musset
  • Magic
  • Cures
  • Fertilizer

• 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.

  

  Andre Maurois
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste.

  

  Friedrich Schiller
  • True
  • Age
  • Science

• I have just read your book On the Spiritual in Art from cover to cover, and I will read it once more. I find it pleasing to an extraordinary degree, because we agree on nearly all of the main issues..

  

  Arnold Schoenberg
  • Art
  • Book
  • Spiritual

• You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces. That is construction. Ingenuity is at work. But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good, I am happy and I say: 'This is beautiful.' That is Architecture. Art enters in.

  

  Le Corbusier
  • Good
  • Work
  • Heart

• All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines and right angles that have dominated the building art from time immemorial.

  

  Martin Filler
  • Time
  • Art
  • Architecture

• Art on the contrary sought this harmony in practice of art itself. More and more in its creations it has given inwardness to that what surrounds us in nature, until, in Neo-Plasticism, nature is no longer dominant. This achievement of balance may prepare the way for the fulfillment of man and signal the end of (what we call) art.

  

  Piet Mondrian
  • May
  • Nature
  • Practice

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