Art Quotes
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Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art.
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O Judgment ! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason !
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Today, because photography exercises such a profound influence upon the study of art, we tend to disregard the way in which prints continue to function as information.
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No one questions the fact that verbal language has to be learned, but the commonplaceness of visual experience betrays art; people tend to assume that, because they can see, they can see art.
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I don't know what art is, but I do know what it isn't. And it isn't someone walking around with a salmon over his shoulder or embroidering the name of everyone they have slept with on the inside of a tent.
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My father was a self-employed textile agent, and the shop below his office was an art gallery.
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I would begin by collecting lithographs and etchings. It's a way of coming in and benefiting from real quality art. Even younger artists make wonderful prints. Prints can become very valuable. That's how I began collecting.
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In Europe itself it is not probable that war will ever absolutely cease until science discovers some destroying force so simple in its administration, so horrible in its effects, that all art, all gallantry, will be at an end, and battles will be massacres which the feelings of mankind will be unable to endure.
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Collectors are paying for our education by purchasing our art.
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Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable.
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Art to be art must soothe.
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Early in life, Duveen...noticed that Europe had plenty of art and America had plenty of money, and his entire astonishing career was the product of that simple observation.
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I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.
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Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.
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How does an artist know when the line that he just painted is good or not good? That's the catch. De Kooning was the greatest of my contemporaries in art, and he knew when he'd done a good line. When he didn't, he threw it away. I wish I'd thrown away some of mine.
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I made the decision that my contribution needed to be more musical than political. My music was enough, politically. Art matters. Art was enough. My music was enough to say what I had to say.
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It's about communication, no matter how impossibly hard your art is to understand and how much of an ivory tower or high horse you get on, it's still basically communication or why are you doing it?
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O, teach me how you look, and with what art You sway the motion of Demetrius' heart."-Helena
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Art is not some sort of guideline for understanding. It's a thing unto itself.
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Through play, we renew contact with childhood – My art is childlike.
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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Playing live is really the art form. You're a lot freer, a lot looser. You've got people there that can give you feedback, and then you can play off of that. There's so much more energy.
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The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw.
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Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist.
