Art Quotes
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What I love about art is that anything is possible. Bees can be pink. Trees can be purple. It's like taking the world as it is and then swirling it around to show how it could be" -Salma
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When you do your art, and you may think people don't recognize it or appreciate it, you actually go and try to get better.
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As soon as you are willing to say 'it's not for you', you're freed up to make art.
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I'd like to make as much art as I possibly can before I die, so I'm working on a few things.
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Art is the act of doing work that matters while dancing with the voice in your head that screams for you to stop.
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A work of art is a renewable source of energy.
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When I was in my early twenties I was doing tenant organizing - rent strikes, specifically - in my building. I think that was how I started doing poster art. It was something very concrete.
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The poster art over the years, art with social critique in it, has always been on class war theme. It's been trying to make that point - that we are larger than they are. They may have guns and pepper spray and helicopters and F16s and the whole U.S. military on their side, but when it comes down to it, we still have the numbers.
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I think good art does come from a dark place.
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Art isn't about drawing; it's about learning to see. What organization doesn't need this ability?
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Europeans invented art for the last 300 years, and the Americans kind of killed it with a big, huge rock.
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Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous interaction that leads to a human (not simply a commercial) conclusion.
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Art is a human act, a generous contribution, something that might not work, and it is intended to change the recipient for the better, often causing a connection to happen.
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Originality in art puts charm where it wasn't.
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I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.
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I cannot tell good art from bad art. I have no eye for it.
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All persistent practices in art have a creative function. They may serve several ends, but the chief one is the shaping of the work.
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The designs of the paper euros, introduced in 2002, proclaim a utopian aspiration. Gone are the colorful bills of particular nations, featuring pictures of national heroes of statecraft, culture and the arts, pictures celebrating unique national narratives. With the euro, 16 nations have said goodbye to all that.
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It's as if scientists exert every effort of will they possess deliberately to find the least significant problems in the world and explain them. Art matters. Happiness matters. Love matters. Good matters. Evil matters. Slam the fridge door. They are the only things that matter and they are of course precisely the things that science goes out of its way to ignore.
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There is no question that advertising is an art, and manipulation is the art of advertising through the medium of the tape.
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I had to face the possibility that the art of living in the way of Jesus was no longer carried on in a holistic way by any single tradition.
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Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.
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As much as I loved the art and discipline of the dance, it didn't love me!
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An alive piece of art may be more alive than much of its audience, and with this odd truth artists must make peace.
