Art Quotes
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I'm a little greedy for action scenes. I'm a martial artist, and any time I get to show off some of that art is great.
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There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.
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Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title.
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I admit, that the commonplace man can never, by copying, produce a masterpiece; he notes every detail but he does not really see - the artist penetrates below the surface into the very heart of nature; for him everything is beautiful because beauty in art consists of character.
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The adventurous state of / mind is a high house // To enjoy life the adventurous / state of mind must be / grasped and maintained // The essential feature of adventure is that it is a / going forward into / unknown territory // The joy of adventure is unaccountable // This is the attractiveness of / art work. It is adventurous, / strenuous and joyful.
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Painting is the art of hollowing a surface.
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Life is the leaves which shape and nourish a plant, but art is the flower which embodies its meaning
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The Arts and Sciences, essential to the prosperity of the State and to the ornament of human life, have a primary claim to the encouragement of every lover of his country and mankind.
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Artschwager's art always involves looking closely at surfaces, questions what an object is, wants to make you forget the name of the thing you're looking at so that it might mushroom in your mind into something that triggers unexpected infinities.
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As a black person on the outside, because there's so much black art and so much of black people's work circulating, so many people imitating what black people do, you would think that there'd be more black people on the business side. It didn't cross my mind that every label head, for the most part, is a white guy.
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How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone.
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The art of splitting hairs four ways. This is the department of useless techniques. Mechanical Avunculogratulation, for example, is how to build machines for greeting uncles. We're not sure, though, if Pylocatabasis belongs, since it's the art of being saved by a hair. Somehow that doesn't seem completely useless.
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An artist cannot be partially sincere any more than art can be an approximation of beauty.
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Art is not made to decorate rooms. It is an offensive weapon in the defense against the enemy.
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It's a pity I am so impatient and careless, as any ordinary person could learn all the techniques of photography in a week. It is the democratic art, i.e. technical skill is practically eliminated - the more foolproof cameras become with focusing and exposure gadgets the better - and artistic quality depends only on choice of subject.
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Women's art, political art - those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I'm resistant to. But I absolutely define myself as a feminist.
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Art persists, it timelessly continues.
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Money is completely boring to me. It means nothing, except it feeds my art. Every penny I make goes back into the Haus of GaGa. My Haus of GaGa is something like Andy Warhol's Factory.
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In the end, the discipline of verification is what separates journalism from entertainment, propaganda, fiction, or art.
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Through art, you create your own world.
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You really need faith in yourself to make art and to stand up for what you believe in.
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It's always been performance art, but now it's on a different level.
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Comedy is like music - there are genres and styles for every taste. Katy Perry is there for people who like frothy pop music. Metallica is there for people who like head-banging metal. And Susan Boyle is there for... well, I don't who the hell is listening to that freak of nature, but that's not the point. In art, there's something for everybody.
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Part of my agenda has been to support art that engages life with people.
