Top 1200 Art Critic Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

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

Music is an art form too. Sometimes other forms of art can be inspiring to the musician.

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

I don't believe that art is just for entertainment. I want to create art that is meaningful in some way.

There can be no good art that is international. Art to be vigorous and gesund must use the material at hand.

Strictly speaking, there are no holidays for art; art pursues you everywhere, and that's just fine with the artist.

Art solves nothing, either for the artist himself or for those who receive his art.

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

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

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

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.

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

This industry [photography], by invading the territories of art, has become art's most mortal enemy.

A young critic is like a boy with a gun; he fires at every living thing he sees. He thinks only of his own skill, not of the pain he is giving.

How life did imitate art sometimes. And the cruder the art, the closer the imitation.

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

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

You can't really have art without having a sense of community as art is for others to enjoy as well.

I'm always my toughest critic. I'm setting the expectations for myself, and that's enough pressure. I don't need to worry about the haters or the Twitter trolls or what everybody else thinks.

Mime is an art beyond words. It is the art of the essential. And you cannot lie. You have to show the truth.

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

The criticism does not hurt because I have always been my own worst critic. I wouldn't say I don't respect other people's opinions, but my opinion is the most important.

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

I love art, painting, and drawing and studying art, like Rembrandt and Van Gogh.

Great art always transcends its culture, while lesser art merely reflects it.

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

The art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its potency.

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

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

The critic does his utmost to blight genius in its infancy; that which rises in spite of him he will not see; and then he complains of the decline of literature.

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

Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.

It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.

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

Some teams hold a little more than others. It's an art, but it's not an art I appreciate.

Literary critics, like a herd of cows or a school of fish, always face in the same direction, obeying that love for unity that every critic requires.

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

To make people free is the aim of art, therefore art for me is the science of freedom.

Art is consumed in so many different ways. You could say people don't stop to appreciate art. On the other hand, people can consume art more quickly. Twitter, videos posted online - how do you utilize that? How do you identify yourself as an individual when you're sitting at this massive dinner table of the world with everyone on, from Kansas to Dubai?

In Japan, you can learn how to make a bunch of flowers. This is an art. Tea ceremony, it's an art.

The words of the social critic Eric Hoffer were ringing true: "Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and turns into a racket."

I would consider myself simply a critic of the market economy. My standard isn't primarily political. First of all, it's ecological. And then I get to matters that are social and cultural.

For the critic, the word 'best' is like a grenade without a pin: Toss it around too freely, and you're likely to get your hand blown off.

Sometimes we look at a work of art and we immediately think that it is German art, but with some we don't, it's not so obvious.

Art in the age of the digital image is completely different from experiencing art in physical form.

I've had to sell a lot of art, which I've hated to do because I really love the art I have.

When demagogues and dictators ban art, this is the reason: art is the great solvent of obedient fundamentalism.

We should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art.

Before the Conquest all art was of the people, and popular art has never ceased to exist in Mexico. The art called popular is fugitive in character, with less of the impersonal and intellectual characteristics of the schools. It is the work of talent nourished by personal experience and that of the community - rather than being taken from the experiences of painters in other times and other cultures.

The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you.

The art of healing, the art of ecstasy, the art of God-consciousness has millions of names in mystic terms. It has to do with rhythm and reality. When the body is in rhythm, there is ease. When the body, or any part of the body goes out of rhythm, there is dis-ease.

My art is applied to another art which is cinema, that makes my life much easier.

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

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Concrete, Steel & Paint portrays the core values of restorative justice-respect, responsibility and relationships-expressed through art. it is art that involves victims, offenders and communities in a dialogue that is sometimes difficult and painful, sometimes reconciling, but always engaging. As one prisoner says in the film, 'We have come together collectively through art.' It will be a great discussion tool for college classes, community groups and others interested in issues of justice, community-building, conflict resolution and socially-engaged art.

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

Somewhere a portion of contemporary art has to exist as an example of what the art and its context were meant to be.

The art and architecture of the past that we know is that which remains. The best is that which remains where it was painted, placed or built. Most of the art of the past that could be moved was taken by conquerors. Almost all recent art is conquered as soon as it's made, since it's first shown for sale and once sold is exhibited as foreign in the alien museums. The public has no idea of art other than that it is something portable that can be bought. There is no constructive effort; there is no cooperative effort. This situation is primitive in relation to a few earlier and better times.

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

Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make.