Art Quotes
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Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art can change the way we see the world. Art can create an analogy.
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I don't take lessons in art. It all comes from the heart, and sure I'd love to study art! In school I come across one thing I do and I want to study that in college. I love history, I love science, I love art, I love grammar, I love literature!
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Art made by the people for the people, as a joy to the maker and the user.
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In every painting, as in any other work of art, there is always an IDEA, never a STORY. The idea is the point of departure, the first cause of the plastic construction, and it is always present all the time as energy creating matter. The stories and other literary associations exist only in the mind of the spectator, the painting acting as the stimulus.
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Art can make the old surprising, and the new and sudden soothing.
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As an artist, I think you always have to take care of yourself as a person probably even more than the average person because your body is so important to your art.
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At that childhood time, of course, if you were involved in art, it was going to be drawing and painting, because that's the only thing that was taught in the schools.
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Punch a black belt in the face, he becomes a brown belt. Punch him again, purple.
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Art is a language, therefore, a social function.
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I am an artist at living - my work of art is my life.
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Any work of art must first of all tell a story.
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Learning the art of painting is not an easy task. It takes a great deal of intelligence, keen analysis, study and practice.
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Art is the flower... life the green leaf.
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Then I moved down to the Bowery to this building where Debbie Harry lived. It was there that I started combining some clothes for her and continued doing the art and photography.
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Making reality real is art's responsibility. It is a practical assignment, then, a self-assignment: to achieve, by a cultivated sensitivity for observing life, a capacity for receiving impressions, a lonely, unremitting, unaided, unaidable vision, and transferring this vision without distortion to it onto the pages of a novel, where, if the reader is so persuaded, it will turn into the reader's illusion.
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...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?
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Behold, on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong.
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Art without heart is craft.
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No man can thoroughly master more than one art or science.
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I'm afraid that eating in restaurants reflects one's experiences with movies, art galleries, novels, music - that is, characterized by mild amusement but with an overall feeling of stupidity and shame. Better to cook for yourself.
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I have respect for those who make money at art and do it well and smartly, because that commercial aspect keeps the world going and running, in a sense.
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The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
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Religion I have defined as "Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art".
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Animals feed themselves; men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating
