Top 1000 Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.

An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.

With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.

I'm giving into my tendency to want to blur and blend the lines between art and life, and privacy and sharing.

My art is not limited to the songs I create but also to the reaction it creates. I like to sit back and look at the whole thing as if it's a tornado that I'm controlling. It's creating chaos. When you create chaos, ideas are turned upside down, and everybody looks at things in a different way.

Through a painting we can see the whole world.

Art is going to make a bigger comeback than ever. That's the upside to things getting challenging.

The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.

I cry out for order and find it only in art.

Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.

I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.

There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.

Art is anything you can get away with.

Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

Art is a kind of illness.

To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.

I was a product of Andy Warhol's Factory. All I did was sit there and observe these incredibly talented and creative people who were continually making art, and it was impossible not to be affected by that.

What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.

Even Michelangelo got paid for doing the Sistine Chapel. To those artists who say they're doing it for the love of art, I say: Get real.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Art is anything people do with distinction.

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.

The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.