Top 1200 Art Teacher Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

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

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

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.

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

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 about art and backstory has taken over visual pleasure.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art.

When the business starts shaping the art, or the delivery of the art, then it's not right.

New York is more where art is bought than where art is made.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Poetry is such an ancient art, and I consider myself young within that art.

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

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

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

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