Top 1200 Buying Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

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

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

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

When people say, 'I don't get art' ... that means art is working.

Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.

People don't buy and sell art based on the personality of the artist. Or there wouldn't be much art bought and sold.

Christian art today should be twentieth-century art.

The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.

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

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

There is no regional art. The only region left is the art magazine.

Design is the art of planning, and it is the art of making things possible.

The Difference Between Art and Life is that Art is More Bearable

If advertising is not an official or state art, it is nonetheless clearly art.

Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying.

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

I never understood the low art/high art distinction.

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

Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

If it looks like art, chances are it's somebody else's art.

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.

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

The price we sell things for is not important. What is important is we sell art that has to be replaced. You become good in art by doing art. The more you sell, the more you must produce.

I think there is a debate in the arts about, you know, whether we must strive for art for art's sake, and you know, kind of try to keep political debate out of our work. And to that I say, I'd like you to show me an example of, you know, this so-called apolitical art. I don't think there's any such thing.

Conceptual art might be, for better or worse, (definable as) the art most susceptible to lossy compression.

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

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

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

Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.

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

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

There is art in everything - industry, education, play, all are forms of art.

Art, if it is art, will develop in whatever circumstances it is placed.

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

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

Being critical of art is a way of showing art respect.

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

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

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

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

In art, immorality cannot exist. Art is always sacred.

It is art to conceal art. -Ars est celare artem

I've always had standards about writing well. There is art in this business. There is potentially great art.

I have a large number of enthusiastic admirers of my art. And they all sing a hymn in praise from the bottom of their hearts for my art.

All art is fundamentally subversive, because it upsets people's perceptions, their notions about society. Therefore, art is dangerous, but good art is always making us reassess our thoughts and feelings about how we relate to other people. There are always people who fear that and want to suppress that.

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

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

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

Classical art stands for form; romantic art for content.

Art should be concerned more with life than with art.

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

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

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

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

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.

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

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

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

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