Top 1200 Modern Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

In art it is always as though the question is what the work of art is really about.

To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

The greatest foe to art is luxury, art cannot live in its atmosphere.

To sculpt a head of hair with scissors is an art form. It's in pursuit of art.

I think it's so important for us to make art and to be loud and to resist with our art.

Too much art was no art at all. Like candy instead of bread!

That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe.

When I went to college, and I went to art school, I started to realize that Warhol was cool and that pop art was fun.

Part of the strength of Pollock and Rothko's art, in fact, is this doubt as to whether art may be there at all.

Screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art.

My problem with political art is not that it's bad art necessarily, but that it is terrible politics.

Art about art and backstory has taken over visual pleasure.

My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater.

Good art doesn't really have an expiration date on it. That's something to be happy about, if you're making art.

Art is no crime. It's every artist's responsibility to make art that is meaningful

It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all. We should long ago have become angels had we been capable of paying attention to the experience of art, and allowing ourselves to be changed in accordance with the ideals it expresses. Art only has the capacity, through shock and catharsis, to make the human soul receptive to good. It’s ridiculous to imagine that people can be taught to be good…Art can only give food – a jolt – the occasion – for psychical experience.

I consider chess an art, and accept all those responsibilities which art places upon its devotees.

Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away.

Art should be serious, not a joke. I don't like to laugh about art.

There are no vital and significant forms of art; there is only art, and precious little of that.

Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art's form.

I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible.

Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.

Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else's personality, that is not art.

I think people should just make art and let the art speak for itself.

As much as I love art, there is no art as fine as the world we have been given.

The first essential to success in the art you practice is respect for the art itself.

I will die for the art & what I believe in. The art ain't always gon' be polite.

I was much more interested in literature than I was in art. I just got into art by mistake.

Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

Art is incredibly subjective. What is great art to one person isn't necessarily to another.

I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.

When comparing works of art, it is important that the art itself, and not the artists, be considered.

Art is not an elitist gift for a few select people. Art is for everyone.

I felt film is art and there are people that constructed that art - and that made me want to be a filmmaker.

Art is neither a profession nor a hobby. Art is a way of being.

Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it.

A city's art must give the impression that art is as indispensable a thing as water, or food.

Everyone is entitled to love their body just the way it is. Art is art.

I really believe in not compromising your art. I feel like I've never compromised my art.

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is black charcoal crushing white paper.

I think for me, any great art is art which communicates human emotion.

Organized religions in general, in my opinion, are dying forms. They were all very important when we didn't know why the sun moved, why weather changed, why hurricanes occurred, or volcanoes happened. Modern religion is the end trail of modern mythology. But there are people who interpret the Bible literally. Literally! I choose not to believe that's the way. And that's what makes America cool, you know?

New York is more where art is bought than where art is made.

I've always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.

Survival is important, art is secondary. If you aren't alive, how can you create art?

When you're so drawn to art, to making pictures and looking at art, it's really all you want to think about.

Polling is an art as well as a science, and the art of crafting good questions is still vital.

I expect art to make me scream, art to reveal soul.

when you are dealing with art, any kind of art, your pleasure in making it is what matters most.

Poetry is such an ancient art, and I consider myself young within that art.

Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.

Art history looks at art works and the people who have created them.

All art (after Duchamp) is conceptual (in nature) because art only exists conceptually.

I received my training at an art academy, so what I produce is art. That's what is artistic about my photographs.

As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.

Whatever else art is good for, its chief effectiveness lies in propagating more art.

When the business starts shaping the art, or the delivery of the art, then it's not right.

Art is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art.