Top 1200 Buying Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

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

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

I will die for the art & what I believe in. The art ain't always gon' be polite.

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

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.

Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.

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

The greatest foe to art is luxury, art cannot live in its atmosphere.

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

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

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

Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it.

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

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

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

Too much art was no art at all. Like candy instead of bread!

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

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

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

Art is not an elitist gift for a few select people. Art is for everyone.

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.

There are no vital and significant forms of art; there is only art, and precious little of that.

Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else's personality, that is not art.

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

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

Everyone is entitled to love their body just the way it is. Art is art.

Art about art and backstory has taken over visual pleasure.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

My problem with political art is not that it's bad art necessarily, but that it is terrible politics.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

The first essential to success in the art you practice is respect for the art itself.

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

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

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

Art history looks at art works and the people who have created them.

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

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

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.

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

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

I've always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.

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

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

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