Art Quotes
-
Art is about changing what we see in our everyday lives and representing it in such a way that it gives us hope.
-
To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings.
-
Galleries began growing in both number and size in the late seventies, when artists who worked in lofts wanted to exhibit their work in spaces similar to the ones the art was made in.
-
I have no interest in art. Let me clarify — I have no interest in non-nude images.
-
And in fact, I think the more we start to worship perfection the more soul leaks out of art.
-
I love art and I think I was destined to end up in some aspect of the arts.
-
I'm interested in Jackson Pollock's kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it's nothing, and yet it's incredible.
-
I picked up the bass kind of postpunk-style. There's a real art to not learning how to play an instrument and being able to still play it.
-
My theory is that nine times out of ten, if there's a depression, more a social depression than anything, it brings out the best art in black people. The best example is, Reagan and Bush gave us the best years of hiphop.
-
Not to know the Bible is, in some ways, to be illiterate, to neglect the very roots of philosophy, art, architecture, literature, poetry and music.
-
Picasso has a volatile, explosive presence. He seems to take art back to an earlier function, before the centuries of museums and masterpieces; he is the artist as clown, as conjurer, as master funmaker.
-
My own duty as a teacher...is not so much to interpret Beethoven, Wagner, or other masters of the past, but to give what encouragement I can to the young musicians of America. I...hope that just as this nation has already surpassed so many others in marvelous inventions and feats of engineering and commerce, and has made an honorable place for itself in literature in one short century, so it must assert itself on the...art of music...To bring about this result, we must trust the very youthful enthusiasm and patriotism of this country.
-
The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.
-
The politician is...trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.
-
Whether it be in comics, games or film, you can trace the art direction and influences back to some earlier, real-life historic period or artistic movement.
-
Art saved me. It may sound corny, but it's true.
-
I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
-
It is a pity to make a mystery out of what should most easily be understood. There is nothing occult about the thought that all things maybe made well or made ill. A work of art is a well-made thing - that is all. It may be a well-made statue of a well-made chair or a well-made book. Art is not a special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself that is good. Most simply and generally, Art may be thought of as "The Well Doing of What Needs Doing."
-
The real essence of art turned out to be not something high up and far off - it was right inside my ordinary daily self - If a musician wants to become a finer artist, he must first become a finer person.
-
If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.
-
People want to make a distinction between what's commercial and what's art.
-
I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it.
-
The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.
-
Art is often valuable precisely because it isn't a sensible way to make money.
