Top 1200 Art Students Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

History has proven that art depicting black people cannot be disentangled from the political implications that such art has on their lives. As Africans were being stripped from the continent and sailed across the Atlantic to the Western world, depictions of black people in Western art changed in order to further render them racialized caricatures.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

I cannot tell good art from bad art. I have no eye for it.

All art is contemporary art because it had to be made when it was now.

I don't believe in selling art by transparencies. Art is a firsthand experience.

The magic question is, 'What for?' But art is not for anything. Art is the ultimate goal.

I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.

Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.

Ah, but art and trouble go hand in hand. If you cannot be troubled to create art from your heart, then your art will never trouble the heart of others.

The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.

Marketing is not the art of finding clever ways to dispose of what you make. It is the art of creating genuine customer value.

We were told, quite seriously, that there never would be a Canadian art because we had no art tradition.

The art of avoiding extremes is an art that is drawn on the canvas of maturity and painted with the abstract strokes of many experiences.

It would nice to live in a world where art can just be art!

I personally don't care for abstract art. I have always felt, 'To each his own.' There's art out there for everybody.

The art market is global now, and theres becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art.

I believe that an art exhibition can be engaging, fun and deeply intellectually satisfying and serious. These are not contradictory concepts in art.

What is art in the final analysis? Art is the shining forth of one's interiority.

I never understood the low art/high art distinction.

Art inspires me. Looking at art in a museum, listening to music, reading the works of other writers.

I think there's art, and then there's illustration. Art comes from a deeper place.

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter.

The art of living is the art of bringing dreams and reality together.

Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place.

Christian art today should be twentieth-century art.

Music is art, and art is an integral part of the human experience.

Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography.

Your life is a work of art, and in the end, the underlying theme of great art is bravery and hope and love.

What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

I don't make a division between an art film and commercial art.

I call the art of theatre a "dirty art", since there are so many people involved who have needs and whims to be satisfied.

If I saw the art around me that I liked, then I wouldn't do art.

Art leaves something to the listener; that's what separates art from craft.

Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, even if only in the art of living.

When it comes to the street-art world, there are a lot of people who realize if they go out and put up a few pieces of street art and photograph them really well, even if their locations weren't actually that high-profile or dangerous, with the level of exposure they get from the Internet, with a large audience, they can maintain that rebel cache by having it be theoretically documented street art.

Neither camera, nor lens, nor film determine the quality of pictures; it is the visual perception of the man behind the mechanism which brings them to life. Art contains the allied ideas of making and begetting, of being master of one's craft and able to create. Without these properties no art exists and no photographic art can come into being

Any art which can be subjected to an analytical process is, by this very fact, removed from the possibility of being art.

Why I talk so seriously about art is that art is the only thing that helps people stay alive, and it is the only thing that has allowed people to create joy in this insane, suppressive universe. And art is the only thing that they can't get rid of. They've tried, but ultimately they can't stamp it out.

Art itself is knowledge of the spiritual world. Art is information from higher forces, by those who are talented. I'm not jiving.

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.

I still believe that the best art - be it music, comedy, painting, etc. - is the art that hasn't been asked for, or is expected.

When I was in my studio I didn't give a damn what sex I was... I thought art is art.

Truman Capote has made lying an art. A minor art.

Art for art's sake. [Lat., Ars gratia artis.]

Comic art is just different. It's art on its own terms.

I gravitate toward contemporary art. I love great paintings, sculpture, photography, some video art.

"Art is the ability to turn one's gaze to the world of oblivion." This is the way in which I understand art at fundamental level.

Art - the beautiful thing about art, from my standpoint, is that it has no discrimination.

Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. That in art is highest which aims at this.

But perhaps my art is the art of a lunatic, I thought, mere glittering quicksilver, a blue soul breaking in upon my pictures.

The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.

If I ever have a conflict between art and nature, I let art win.

My dark little secret is that I don't actually believe many people in the art world have much feeling for art.

Classical art stands for form; romantic art for content.

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.

I really don't know what's good or bad art because all the art I like people tell me is tasteless.

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best

The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems.