Art Quotes
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The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.
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I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you.
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By Suprematism I mean the supremacy of pure feeling in creative art. To the Suprematist the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, meaningless; the significant thing is feeling.
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Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes; this is partly because it gets unobstructed hold of the hearer’s mind without his being distracted by secondary thoughts, and partly because he feels that here he is not being corrupted or deceived by the arts of rhetoric, but that the whole effect is got from the thing itself.
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Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.
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In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
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Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.
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I have a strong art-history background.
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I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste.
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Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
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I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
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Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.
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The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
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My mother was an artist, and I was fairly good at art as a child. I was always the best drawer in class, except in second grade when an artistic genius passed through our school!
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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I've always been a bit of a mix between art and technology. I used to paint a lot, but I'm not very good with my hands. It has always been a fusion between my computer gaming interests and being exposed to the rich data of society that we live in.
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I watched films growing up, but no more than the next guy, really. Working on 'Hugo' made me appreciate cinema and the art of cinema a lot more.
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I think that's just part of how it is with making art. Sometimes you're just flooded with ideas, and then other times you're questioning all the ideas you ever had before, and everything is just... lame.
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If cooking is an art, I think we're in our Dada phase.
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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
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I want to be free... free to develop my art.
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I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.
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I taught myself how to draw, and I soon found out it was what I really wanted to do. I didn't think I was going to create any great masterpieces like Rembrandt or Gauguin. I thought comics was a common form of art, and strictly American in my estimation, because America was the home of the common man - and show me the common man that can't do a comic. So comics is an American form of art that anyone can do with a pencil and paper.
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Photography has been a passion of mine since I was 15. After my kids were born I found myself incorporating my photography into different art endeavors and from there it just blossomed.
