Art Quotes
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My overall approach toward art is to remain as open as possible in front of the world, to always be curious, not to be afraid to experiment, and have a sense of self-criticism and a general criticism toward the surrounding. Also, trying to make a difference between serious research and pure gag! And making as few compromises as possible toward doing things that might not be accepted by the majority of society, even if this dominant society is the one which is ruling the art world. To keep this fundamental idea, even if it's a bit trivial: to have the desire to transform the world.
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Undertake not to teach your equal in the art himself professes; it savors arrogancy.
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Cold exactitude is not art... The so-called consciousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. People like that, if they could, would work with the same minute attention on the back of their canvas.
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I also think that everyone has an elitist approach to his own art, a complex knowledge of it, whether he is a clockmaker or an engineer. And I think it's perfectly legitimate to make use of this knowledge because it enriches the overall texture of life.
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To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble on the surface.
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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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Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.
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I have heard it said There is an art which in their piedness shares With great creating nature.
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I love an art which allows me to document my place in this mix... This is my past and my future. It has its own logic and finally, its own sense of fulfillment.
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I am an artist at living - my work of art is my life.
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Creating art is a habit, one that we practice daily or hourly until we get good at it
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My dream is for my flowers to act as beacons and rallying points across the planet - bringing people together on a global scale and through my art start a global conversation.
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It art can only succeed through the cooperating imagination and intelligence of its consumers, who fill out, for themselves, the artist's world and make it round, and whose own special genius partly determine the ultimate glory of it.
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Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.
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A good piece of art should make a revolution inside you.
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Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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Patience may be a virtue, but quitting is an art.
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The purpose of art is to accumulate the human within the human being.
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I have a feeling that in art the need to understand and the need to communicate are one.
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Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will.
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Art and commerce are not irreconciliable, they are inextricably intertwined.
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Bless advertising art for its pictorial vitality and verbal creativity. (p. 18)
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In teaching, you must simply work your pupil into such a state of interest in what you are going to teach him that every other object of attention is banished from his mind; then reveal it to him so impressively that he will remember the occasion to his dying day; and finally fill him with devouring curiosity to know what the next steps in connection with the subject are.
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Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.
