Art Quotes
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True art tries not to attract attention in order to be noticed.
Jose Bergamin -
I don't know what I am on set. I can be many different things on set depending on how stressful a situation is. But at the end of the day we're making movies, we're not saving the world... we're not an army, no one's lives are at risk and we're just trying to make art, so I think as long as you keep reminding yourself that's what it's about you can have fun.
Cary Fukunaga
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Many other cultures value poetry more than we do. In Ireland, poetry is a top cultural pursuit, the art to end all arts.
Campbell McGrath -
I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes.
Will Self -
Timeliness is an enemy to art.
Anne Bosworth Greene -
I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
William Morris -
The universality of art, I suppose, always springs from the particular.
Alex Colville -
I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.
Judy Chicago
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I have a feeling that in art the need to understand and the need to communicate are one.
Hedda Sterne -
Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.
Lincoln Steffens -
Art proper, in other words, emerges when sensation can detach itself and gain an autonomy from its creator and its perceiver when something of the chaos from which it is drawn can breathe and have a life of its own.
Elizabeth Grosz -
I attended Art & Design High School, and at one point, you had to write about what you wanted to be when you grew up. I wrote that I wanted to be a writer for 'Mad' magazine.
Amy Heckerling -
Art is fast, but with art you're tied down. That's too negative. What I mean is, you have a business and a place that you go every day. I guess some artists do move around.
Cory Arcangel -
You have brilliance in you, your contribution is valuable, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do, and you must.
Seth Godin
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Where the material ends, art begins.
Etienne Hajdu -
In the vaunted works of Art The master-stroke is Nature's part. 5.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I feel like a sailor, or better, like an explorer of the immense universe of art. The artist is a discoverer in search of the keys that open the door to emotions and feelings . Art is the place where rationality, fantasy, truth and fiction mix up in a detonating mixture.
Augusto De Luca -
Animals feed themselves; men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin -
The Force of Art lies in its immediate influence on human psychology and in its active contagiousness.
Naum Gabo -
If art is the poetic interpretation of nature, photography is the exact translation; it is exactitude in art or the complement of art. (1854)
Charles Negre
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Maybe if they all could he combined - art, rock and fashion. Those were always my favorite things.
Stephen Sprouse -
There's nothing else exactly like it in any other art form, the orchestration of so many different elements. It's endlessly fascinating what can be done editorially. You can create meaning where there was none, you can create feeling where there was none, you can create narrative where there was none. Two frames can be the difference between something that works and something that doesn't. It's fascinating.
Steven Soderbergh -
It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Ah! My dear friend painting is to us what the music of Berlioz and Wagner was before us - a consolatory art for sore hearts! And yet there are only a few like you and me who feel it!!!
Vincent Van Gogh