Top 1200 Art Expression Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Art about art and backstory has taken over visual pleasure.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To translate poetry, one has to possess some art, at the very least the art of stylistic re-embodiment.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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