Top 1200 Art Students Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

A master of an art is someone who's been mastered by the art. They've become so one with what they teach that you can't tell the teacher from the student.

The educational system in the US was a highly predictable victim of the neoliberal reaction, guided by the maxim of "private affluence and public squalor." Funding for public education has sharply declined. As higher education is driven to a business model in accord with neoliberal doctrine, administrative bureaucracy has sharply increased at the expense of faculty and students. Cost-cutting leads to hyper-exploitation of the more vulnerable, creating a new precariat of graduate students and adjuncts surviving on a bare pittance, replacing tenured faculty.

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

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

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.

Internet can provide the power to believe in art in new formulas, because it is the newest medium for art.

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

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

I have a large number of enthusiastic admirers of my art. And they all sing a hymn in praise from the bottom of their hearts for my art.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Art when inspired with love leads to higher realms, and that art will open for you the inner life.

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

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

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.

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

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

Art is a kind of artificial memory and the pain which attends all serious art is a sense of that factitiousness.

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

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

A psychologist once asked a group of college students to jot down, in thirty seconds, the initials of the people they disliked. Some of the students taking the test could think of only one person. Others listed as many as fourteen. The interesting fact that came out of this bit of research was this: Those who disliked the largest number were themselves the most widely disliked. When we find ourselves continually disliking others, we ought to bring ourselves up short and ask ourselves the question: "What is wrong with me."

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

The art of research [is] the art of making difficult problems soluble by devising means of getting at them.

Art can be very political but that can't be the purpose of art, it can't be the driving force. It isn't with any of the books that I love, anyway.

What does art mean to me? I never really think about the 'meaning' of art. Yet, obviously, that's what I do.

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.

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

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

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?

The public needs art, and it is the responsibility of a ’self-proclaimed artist’ to realize the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for the few and ignore the masses. … I am interested in making art to be experienced and explored by as many individuals as possible with as many different individual ideas about the given piece with no final meaning attached. The viewer creates the reality, the meaning, the conception of the piece. I am merely a middleman trying to bring ideas together.

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

Music and art well and truly saved my life really - the light switched on when I discovered art.

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

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

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

Drag is very much an art form, and all art goes through ebbs and flows and trends.

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

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

Cooking hasn't yet been accepted as the art form it is. It should be on the level with any of the other art forms.

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

Art is not and never has been subordinate to moral values. Moral values are social values; aesthetic values are human values. Morality seeks to restrain the feelings; art seeks to define them by externalizing them, by giving them significant form. Morality has only one aim - the ideal good; art has quite another aim - the objective truth... art never changes.