Art Quotes
Masterpieces of art possess immense potential to advance a worldview that could help assuage the societal terrors posed by globalization, the most thoroughgoing socioeconomic upheaval since the Industrial Revolution, which has set off a pandemic of retrogressive nationalism, regional separatism, and religious extremism.
Martin Filler
The thing about conceptual art is that it has no solid or finite meaning. So the work can exist simultaneously in many minds at once, and all those minds can see it differently. The artist offers the clues. The spectator offers the reading. You see what you want to see.
Waldemar Januszczak
The art of fiction is one of constant seduction. You must persuade the reader on page 1 to start reading - on page 50, or page 150 and yes, on page 850.
Marge Piercy
Whether it is a big ship or small ship, the same size hole placed correctly in the hull can sink it.
Ed Parker
The product of movement and counter-movement is tension. When tension - working strength - is expressed, it endows the work of art with the living effect of coordinated, though opposing, forces.
Hans Hofmann
Jackie Chan is a very good comedy/martial arts star. He does one kind of martial arts that Jet Li doesn't know how to do and Jet Li does a martial art that Jackie Chan doesn't know how to do. You can both go to two Chinese restaurants, but both can have different kinds of food.
Jet Li
Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction.
John Chamberlain
I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.
Mary Baker Eddy
Music is art, and making watches is art, too.
J Balvin
Thus art is not an object, it is an experience.
Josef Albers
It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.
Stephen Fry
Art, well good art at least, takes you to a place you go during the experience of it, and then after you experience it you are different.
Nile Rodgers
Chic
When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.
Jeanne Moreau
Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
Charles Horton Cooley
We at BMW do not build cars as consumer objects, just to drive from A to B. We build mobile works of art.
Chris Bangle
Art is fluid, and it travels. You have to let music take you where it wants to take you. You can't necessarily be the controller.
Khalid
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
Museum of Modern Art doesn't have anything to do with what I do. Probably has made some differences in my sales, I wouldn't be surprised. Again, you have to ask other people, because I don't have a measuring device.
Garry Winogrand
