Art Quotes
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Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do.
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Design is art that people use.
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No doubt, it is useful for an artist to know all the forms of art which have preceded or which accompany his. That is a sign of strength if it is a question of looking for a stimulus or recognizing mistakes he must avoid.
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We are not just Art for Michelangelo to carve, he can't rewrite the agro of my furied heart- Lady Gaga 10/22/10
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If an artist is driven primarily by social responsibility, I think the art probably suffers because, again, just as leadership has a rather defined end point or purpose, social responsibility would seem to have a very clear moral context.
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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.
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And then before going back for my sophomore year, I decided to change my major to arts and sciences, and my dad cut a deal with me: He said if I'd quit school he'd pay my rent for the next three years, as if I were in school.
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There is no art without a poetic aim.
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To break and be able to grow together again in a better way: that is the difficult art.
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Art can mean a lot of things. At the heart of it, art is doing something you really believe in. Like my wife, she volunteers helping underprivileged kids, that's her art. To me, anything that you do that you truly believe in makes you an artist. It doesn't necessarily mean being a painter or a film maker. That's art, but there's more to it than that. As long as you're pouring your heart and soul into what you're doing, that's the weapon.
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There's really an art form to putting together a set list that flows evenly and that takes you on a ride and doesn't feel disjointed.
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Picture-taking is an ensemble art - like theater.
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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.
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I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.
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My mission is not to forbid French art. If the quality is there, I buy; if the quality isn't there, I don't.
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What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part in my art.
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A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth.
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I come from a family that does not believe in art to this day. They think art is vanity.
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I just feel that art is more important than ever, that art is something that can unify us, that can make America stronger.
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Art serves to establish community. It links us with others and with the things around us, in a shared vision and effort.
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Anyone living, especially your peers, is a threat. You're judging them, they're judging you. This sort of criticism is as close to human nature as you can get. That can be a good thing sometimes. Jealously, rancor, competition, those can be good things in art. But it mostly puts you in a dangerous and disadvantageous position, and one that just takes away from you so much.
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My whole life has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against Reaction and the death of art.
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The ideal form for a poem, essay, or fiction, is that which the ideal writer would evolve spontaneously. One in whom the powers of expression fully responded to the state of feeling, would unconsciously use that variety in the mode of presenting his thoughts, which Art demands.
