Art Quotes

• The role of art in society differs for every artist.

  

  Maya Lin
  • Art
  • Society

• For thousands of years, human beings have been obsessed with beauty, truth, love, honor, altruism, courage, social relationships, art, and God. They all go together as subjective experiences, and it's a straw man to set God up as the delusion. If he is, then so is truth itself or beauty itself.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Up
  • God
  • Truth

• I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.

  

  H. R. Giger
  • Work
  • Art
  • Elegance

• It's very hard to find perfection in your life. But in the art world you can do that.

  

  Washed Out
  • Life
  • World
  • Perfection

• I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Work
  • Great
  • Perfect

• Basically I hate categorical labels. As a young artist I already was very clear about this - that 'objectification' is not the final aim of art. For there are greater things than the object. The greatest thing is the human mind.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Hate

• This world is not one color or culture. Everybody has a story. To tell that story or see that story reflected through art is extremely valuable to the community. The arts belong to everyone and our work should reflect that diversity.

  

  Jesse L. Martin
  • World
  • Work
  • Culture

• Back when I was restoring art and antiques, finding ivory was very difficult because it's illegal, and the only difference between bone and ivory is that bone is free and not illegal.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • Art
  • Free
  • Finding

• People talk about making art films - experimental films. I can make an art film every day of the week. Nothing to it. What's difficult is to combine a commercial film with art.

  

  Carlo Ponti
  • People
  • Day
  • Week

• What I've really liked doing is combining what you might call art criticism or music criticism with something that is happening in real life.

  

  Geoff Dyer
  • Life
  • Music
  • Real

• Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference.

  

  David Mamet
  • Art

• Art is about changing what we see in our everyday lives and representing it in such a way that it gives us hope.

  

  Kehinde Wiley
  • Art
  • Hope
  • Everyday

• When I was a kid, toe dancing and toe shoes had a meaning in our culture as a serious kind of art.

  

  Twyla Tharp
  • Culture
  • Serious
  • Shoes

• Well let's see; I'm not obsessed with... I like Walt Disney except that you know, except for the horrible fascism. I love the art of it. I like a lot of things I don't agree with and that's one of them.

  

  Mark Morris
  • Art
  • Disney

• Life and art had a nice parallel, in the sense of coming together as strangers who are separate in prison who need to work together, getting to know each other.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Life
  • Work
  • Together

• The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost in it.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • People
  • Great
  • True

• I'm not arguing, incidentally, for a confusion of art and architecture, a fashion now, but for a coherent relationship. Therefore, within the capacity of one person or of a small group, the relationship of all visible things should be considered.

  

  Donald Judd
  • Small
  • Relationship
  • Fashion

• When I go to galleries in New York, I feel like I'm in school. I know that there's good contemporary conceptual art, but I have a really hard time caring about it. I'd rather look at images of people and things I can relate to. Then again, I didn't go to art school.

  

  Kyp Malone
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• We must not show to all and sundry the secrets of the waters flowing in ocean and river, or the devices that work on these waters. Let there be convened a council of experts and masters in mechanical art to deliberate what is needed to compose and construct these works.

  

  Filippo Brunelleschi
  • Work
  • Ocean
  • River

• I believe that my art gets across the point that I'm in this morality theater trying to help the underdog, and I'm speaking socially here, showing concern and making psychological and philosophical statements for the underdog.

  

  Jeff Koons
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • Help

• With the advance of knowledge, therefore, prayer and sacrifice assume the leading place in religious ritual; and magic; which once ranked with them as a legitimate equal, is gradually relegated to the background and sinks to the level of a black art.

  

  James G. Frazer
  • Knowledge
  • Prayer
  • Magic

• Homosexuals in Russia live in peace, work, are promoted, receive national awards for their achievements in science, art or any other sphere, medals are awarded to them, I have awarded them myself.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Art
  • Achievement
  • Homosexual

• Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Art
  • Science
  • Light

• In art, practice always comes before theory.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Practice
  • Theory

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