Art Quotes
-
I got married, which opened me up to a whole new way of feeling about life, which in turn reflected on the way I do my art, you know.
-
No one is a plain white room. I hate going into a home that is done to the nines but has nothing do with the homeowner - no knickknacks, no art that has anything to say about the person who lives there.
-
On the surface the avant garde as a whole seems united primarily in terms of what they are against: the rejection of social institutions and established artistic conventions, or antagonism towards the public (as representative of the existing order). By contrast any positive programme tends to be claimed as exclusive property by isolated and even mutually antagonistic sub-groups. So modern art appears fragmented and sectarian, defined as much by manifestos as imaginative work.
-
It's been fun. I've had a lucky life. Art has made me pull the best out of myself.
-
She danced because she needed to. She needed to say things which could be said in no other way, and she needed to take her meaning and her living from the saying of them.
-
The function of art is to acquaint the beholder with something he has not known before.
-
I hope that we can bridge the worlds of appearances and of insights, and thus rescue art from triviality, from 'sensation' alone.
-
Theatre is the art of looking at ourselves.
-
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
-
Each line is now the actual experience with its own innate history. It does not illustrate - it is the sensation of its own realization. a written art note by Twombly on a painting he created in 1957.
-
As a non-Catholic, and since I was a child, I have been obsessed with the ritual and the beauty of Catholic art. I look at Renaissance art all the time.
-
I'm giving into my tendency to want to blur and blend the lines between art and life, and privacy and sharing.
-
When seen as a whole, art derives from a person's desire to communicate himself to another. I do not believe in an art which is not forced into existence by a human being’s desire to open his heart. All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart’s blood. Art is your heart’s blood.
-
If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of music for decades, if not centuries.
-
To me, architecture is an art, naturally, and it isn't architecture unless it's alive. Alive is what art is. If it's not alive, it's dead, and it's not art.
-
Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.
-
I could, of course, have written about the film world and the jealousy there and the frequent belief that others don't have talent. But, for some reason, it just struck me to write about art.
-
Clay can be dirt in the wrong hands, but clay can be art in the right hands.
-
More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
-
Money-getters are the benefactors of our race. To them ... are we indebted for our institutions of learning, and of art, our academies, colleges and churches.
-
If it were not for the great variability among individuals, medicine might as well be a science, not an art.
-
The work of art is a stuffed crocodile. L'objet d'art, par définition, est le crocodile empaillé. (Source: Alfred Jarry, Selected Works, edited by Roger Shattuck and Simon Watson Taylor. Cape, London, 1965).
-
Society is basically not interested in art. Art has a purpose of its own.
-
I have lived among enough painters and around studios to have had all the theories - and how contradictory they are - rammed down my throat. A man has to have a gizzard like an ostrich to digest all the brass-tacks and wire nails of modern art theories.
