Top 1200 Art Critic Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.

Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.

Art has become more than painting, sculpture or music: art is more than Van Gogh painting a landscape or Wagner composing an opera. The whole of reality itself has become the object of art.

In art, there is neither past nor future. The art that is not in the present will never be.

I honestly think that's one of the greatest motivators of art - the fear of not making great art.

The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.

In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.

To me, the art of cinema is the same as the art of painting. The artist takes a 2D medium and gives you the illusion of depth. If you look at any of the great paintings, you have the illusion of depth. Which is part of the art. The same with the great movies.

Artwork is not like a commercial business; there is no such thing as a schedule for art. You can't hurry art.

The art that we should be doing today, in the twenty-first century, is art that is not for the museum.

I got really into art at school and then went onto art college in California.

Improvisation is the art of becoming sound. It is the only art in which a human being can and must become the music he or she is making. Improvisation is the only musical art which predicated entirely on human trust and love.

Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.

Blest be the art that can immortalize,--the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it.

It's a blessing to have people who love the art that you make and who are inspired by the art you create and are a part of.

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

My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art.

I like the elitism of the art world. I think art for the people is a terrible idea.

What's the point of art, of any art, if it doesn't let us see with a little bit of objectivity where we are?

In magic we have a variety of "uses" for our art beyond magic itself, which reminds me of the notion of art therapy. The rendering of art inferior to therapy is an interesting one: interesting in the sense that it makes me want to vomit angrily.

I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.

I think that high art reposes on popular art, without one there cannot be another.

We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves.

There are many more important things in life than fashion. But fashion, to me, is part of pop culture. And I'm an art collector. I'm obsessed with art and pop culture. And I say that there is fame, fashion, art, music and entertainment, including celebrity, that really moves the needle in society.

Art is an idea that has found its perfect visual expression. And design is the vehicle by which this expression is made possible. Art is a noun, and design is a noun and also a verb. Art is a product and design is a process. Design is the foundation of all the arts.

The true work of a critic is not to make his hearer believe him, but agree with him.

Movies are immortal art - the first new art since Greek drama.

Art is a severe business; most serious when employed in grand and sacred objects. The artist stands higher than art, higher than the object. He uses art for his purposes, and deals with the object after his own fashion.

A great work of art is one that truly moves and inspires you. You yourself must be moved. Don't look at art with others' eyes. Don't listen to music with others' ears. You must react to art with your own feelings, your own heart and mind.

Beauty is a type of art everyone is trying to perfect, but no one realizes it's abstract art.

The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.

I don't think music is an art any more than cooking food is an art.

O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?

Art should be serious, not a joke. I dont like to laugh about art.

The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words.

Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this.

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

Street photography is art and if art is a crime, please God, forgive me.

I come from a family that does not believe in art to this day. They think art is vanity.

The purpose of art is higher than art. What we are really interested in are masterpieces of humanity.

I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

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

Fortunately, I got critic and audience acceptance much earlier than industry acceptance.

I'm hardest on myself. I'm my biggest critic. I ended up hurting myself a lot by doing that.

Andy Warhol's art wasn't that interesting to me. He was more interesting to me as a person. He was art himself. I don't even think he was really into art, per se. He may have liked to do it, but I think he was more into people being into him.

Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art.

You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.

The art of surrender is the art of getting out of the way of your own growth.

Art is what we do. Culture is what is done to us. A photograph of an art object is not the art object. An essay about an artist's work is not the artist's work.

There is no such thing as Christian art or secular art - writing, painting, drawing, whatever it is.

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

Art in its highest form is art that serves and instructs society and human development.

An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but a plaything.

Money issue looms so large in art now. And it has absolutely nothing to do with art.

I think everyone is their harshest critic, but I strive for excellence as much as I can because I think it shows.

Cinema is a composite art into which you can include all conceivable art or entertainment forms. In film, I can work with novelistic elements, comedy, drama, music, and other forms of entertainment. Film is a versatile expression, combining all elements into one art form.

I'm interested in Jackson Pollock's kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it's nothing, and yet it's incredible.

Art is useful. Through art we can start building a world that works differently.

The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.