Art Quotes
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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
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Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so, and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence.
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I do not think the coerced mind ever really learns an art.
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At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.
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The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.
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The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation.
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I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
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The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.
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Headline writing is an art form.
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I think that music is still art, even if it's commercialised.
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I've always enjoyed feeling a connection to the avant-garde, such as Dada and surrealism and pop art. The only thing the artist can do is be honest with themselves and make the art they want to make. That's what I've always done.
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What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.
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I didn't even realize that people bought contemporary art . . . that people actually paid for it.
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What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
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If I'm creating a free-form piece of art, I can make it look like anything I want, and nobody will say it's wrong.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.
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If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.
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I believe in limitations. I think the worst art ever made - in my opinion, because it's all so subjective - is where the artist had complete freedom.
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A work of art is good if it has grown out of necessity.
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For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.
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Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.
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Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.
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Metal music is the only art form that is totally dependent for its success on the idea that idiots buy cheap trash are getting ripped off.
