Art is about going a little nuts... Kids do art for fun. It's playing.
Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this.
I think that high art reposes on popular art, without one there cannot be another.
There is no such thing as Christian art or secular art - writing, painting, drawing, whatever it is.
I honestly think that's one of the greatest motivators of art - the fear of not making great art.
The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.
Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.
Beauty is a type of art everyone is trying to perfect, but no one realizes it's abstract art.
I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.
I don't think music is an art any more than cooking food is an art.
I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art.
Money issue looms so large in art now. And it has absolutely nothing to do with art.
In art, there is neither past nor future. The art that is not in the present will never be.
Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else's personality, that is not art.
I got really into art at school and then went onto art college in California.
When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.
I'm interested in Jackson Pollock's kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it's nothing, and yet it's incredible.
We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted.
Survival is important, art is secondary. If you aren't alive, how can you create art?
The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.
I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.
I expect art to make me scream, art to reveal soul.
The purpose of art is higher than art. What we are really interested in are masterpieces of humanity.
The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words.
I received my training at an art academy, so what I produce is art. That's what is artistic about my photographs.
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?
Ive always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.
Movies are immortal art - the first new art since Greek drama.
Art is useful. Through art we can start building a world that works differently.
My problem with political art is not that it's bad art necessarily, but that it is terrible politics.
I think it's so important for us to make art and to be loud and to resist with our art.
Art in its highest form is art that serves and instructs society and human development.
Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.
I think people should just make art and let the art speak for itself.
O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?
Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
I think with art you have to do a bit of transforming of the subject to make the art worth having.
The art of surrender is the art of getting out of the way of your own growth.
Artwork is not like a commercial business; there is no such thing as a schedule for art. You can't hurry art.
My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art.
When comparing works of art, it is important that the art itself, and not the artists, be considered.
I've always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
I do think that it is one of the eternal questions about art, though - is all art intrinsically selfish?
Blest be the art that can immortalize,--the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it.
Street photography is art and if art is a crime, please God, forgive me.
Art should be serious, not a joke. I dont like to laugh about art.
I come from a family that does not believe in art to this day. They think art is vanity.
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 that we should be doing today, in the twenty-first century, is art that is not for the museum.
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 like the elitism of the art world. I think art for the people is a terrible idea.
Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art.
In order to create art today, you have to compromise your art somewhat and be a businessman.
In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.
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.
Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.
The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.
An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but a plaything.
The art of living is simply the art of using energy in an intelligent and creative way.
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