Art Quotes
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The most wonderful time to be in the art world was in the sixties, because it wasn't a business - there was no business of doing art.
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There is a constant ebb and flow in art historical reputations. The reputation of even the greatest figures like Picasso are in flux.
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I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in a crumpled up attitude in a chair or sofa, while I wandered over the hills and far away in novel company and new scenes... My world began to expand very rapidly,... the reading habit had got me securely.
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Desmond O'Grady is one of the senior figures in Irish Literary life, exemplary in the way he has committed himself over the decades to the vocation of poetry and has lived selflessly for the art
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Human beings are the only animals who have the capacity to envisage something that is not present or something that does not yet exist but which is merely possible. The imagination has thus been the cause of our major achievements in science and technology as well as in art and religion.
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Today's cinema is a global art form, it is impossible to make movies for a market the size of France, representing no more than 4% of the world's total.
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Since the time of the cavemen, man has glorified himself, has made himself divine, and his monstrous vanity has caused human catastrophe. Art has collaborated in this false development. I find this concept of art which has sustained man's vanity to be loathsome.
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Two powerful women making art together is always really cool.
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There's no other art form in the world that affects me more.
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Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.
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It is well to start by distinguishing the few really great - the major novelists who count in the same way as the major poets, in the sense that they not only change the possibilities of the art for practitioners and readers, but that they are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life.
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People don't buy and sell art based on the personality of the artist. Or there wouldn't be much art bought and sold.
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I'm very manipulative towards directors. My theory is that everyone on the set is directing the film, we're all receiving art messages from the universe on how we should do the film.
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They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.
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I love art, but I'm not an academic; I just like what I like.
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I was working as an art and tech researcher in '84. At that time there had been a small government program of assistance for artists for at least three or four years. I was working with Super 8 film then. And video in '85 and public radio in the early '80s.
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Games aren't going to go away. BAFTA's got a category for games as an art form. The Academy should think about that, too.
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I'm the one who gave steroids to Pop art.
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Really, I think that going out and playing with your friends is kind of becoming a lost art, with the kids in the neighborhood.
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That's what you want art to do, to open people up and start conversations.
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Art is a hideously painful business, you know. Pity me! Or at least buy me a drink.
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I grant you that the artist does not see Nature as she appears to the vulgar, because his emotion reveals to him the hidden truths beneath appearances.But, after all, the only principle in Art is to copy what you see. Dealers in esthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal. There is no recipe for improving nature.
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All of my art is suitcase-sized. I always paint in mediums that dry pretty quickly because I've got to throw them in my suitcase and go. And I have so much because of that, because it's what I've always done to pass the time, and I like it.
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Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction.
