Top 1200 Best Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

As far as art's concerned, I probably like modern art more than traditional art.

Is photography an art? There is no point in trying to find out if it is an art. Art is old-fashioned. We need something else.

I think it's very important for Arts Ministers to purchase art, to attend art, to validate art.

Graphic novels and comic books, by and large, as you know, have cover art, and they have interior art. The interior art is never as detailed as the cover art.

I think that the art of marketing, the art of promotion and the art of storytelling is definitely elevated and we have to get better every year.

Art can no longer be art today if it does not reach into the heart of our present culture and work transformatively within it that is, an art which cannot mould society — and through this naturally operate upon the core questions of our society — is not art.

Sometimes life is hard. Things go wrong—in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and in all the other ways that life can go wrong. And when things get tough, this is what you should do: make good art. . . . Someone on the internet thinks what you’re doing is stupid or evil or it’s all been done before: make good art. Probably things will work out somehow, eventually time will take the sting away, and it doesn’t even matter. Do what only you can do best: make good art.

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

The design process, at its best, integrates the aspirations of art, science, and culture.

In both metaphysics and art, honesty is the best policy. Keep it clean.

The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art.

What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It's not what you see that is art; art is the gap.

Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother tongue.

Art shouldn't be locked away in galleries and libraries and books. Art should be for everybody and not just art buffs, historians and so-called experts.

The best kind of art or writing holds up a mirror to society.

The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.

You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.

I definitely believe that art is the best way to produce social change.

The voice of our age seems by no means favorable to art, at all events to that kind of art to which my inquiry is directed. The course of events has given a direction to the genius of the time that threatens to remove it continually further from the ideal of art. For art has to leave reality, it has to raise itself bodily above necessity and neediness; for art is the daughter of freedom, and it requires its prescriptions and rules to be furnished by the necessity of spirits and not by that of matter.

Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.

What we need more of is slow art: art that holds time as a vase holds water: art that grows out of modes of perception and making whose skill and doggedness make you think and feel; art that isn’t merely sensational, that doesn’t get its message across in ten seconds, that isn’t falsely iconic, that hooks onto something deep-running in our natures. In a word, art that is the very opposite of mass media.

There's no such thing as sculpture or art or anything, it's just a bit of - it's just words, you know, and actually saying everything is art. We're all art, art is just a tag, like a journalists' tag, but artists believe it.

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.

To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.

This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother.

The best art on a football field usually happens during kickoff returns.

An art critic is someone who appreciates art, except for any particular piece of art.

Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804)

While appropriation art is critical to art, it's an ambiguous art form in the world of the Supreme Court.

Where Picasso paints cause, Repin paints effect. Repin predigests art for the spectator and provides a short cut to the pleasure of art that is necessarily difficult in genuine art. Repin, or kitsch, is synthetic art.

With each change of definition in art, something considered non-art or bad art by a previous generation is suddenly acceptable.

Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.

Surely the novel should be a form of art - but art was not enough. It must contain not only the perfection of art, but the imperfection of nature.

Jews are the best dressers in the world. They buy the best clothes, the best homes, the best cars. The best of everything. The only thing is, they get it for less.

The theatre, like the fresco, is art fitted to its place. And therefore it is above all else the human art, the living art.

Thought is more important than art....To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.

my credo is very short. Its first article is art - and its second is art - and its third is art!

No nation has ever produced great art that has not made a high art of cookery, because art appeals primarily to the senses.

A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.

Unless you are a born connoisseur of art, you will not be able to judge by yourself why certain art is superior to other art.

'The Art of the Brick' is an exhibition I've done where I've taken some works of art from art history and replicated them all out of Lego bricks.

Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art. I buy art that I like. I buy it to show it off in exhibitions. Then, if I feel like it, I sell it and buy more art.

I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express what we can't say in words.

There is no line between fine art and illustration; there is no high or low art; there is only art, and it comes in many forms.

Art has a will of its own. It has nothing to do with the taste of the moment or what's expected of you. That's a formula for dead art, or fashionable art.

If art is the poetic interpretation of nature, photography is the exact translation; it is exactitude in art or the complement of art. (1854)

Now the culture is made of old things, it's a collage. Art made out of art is not art. You're supposed to make art out of life.

At best doing art you feel like you're led by something that doesn't involve you.

Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.

Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.

I trust people who are violent about art, as long as they aren't closed-minded. But, unfortunately, most art blowhards are also art bigots.

We...believe that art is religious, because it is one of man's highest aspirations. There is no such thing as pagan art, only good and bad art.

Study what thou art Whereof thou art a part What thou knowest of this art This is really what thou art. All that is without thee also is within.

I'm married to an artist. I get a lot of inspiration from art, from the lighting in art, from the compositions in art, from the textures, and all of that. I'm always playing with it.

Art is one of the dirtiest words in our language; it's mucked up with all kinds of meanings. There's the art of plumbing; there's the art of almost anything that you can say.

Art galleries are the best first date spots for my money.

Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art.

I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.

Here's the new art of the twenty-first century: the art of curating, the art of plucking all the good stuff from a superabundance of crap.

We fight to prove that our art, Gracie jiu-jitsu, is the best.