Top 1200 Classical Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

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

To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.

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

Survival is important, art is secondary. If you aren't alive, how can you create art?

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.

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

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

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

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

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.

Art is neither a profession nor a hobby. Art is a way of being.

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

As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.

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

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

Art should be serious, not a joke. I don't like to laugh about art.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe.

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

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

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

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

Art is incredibly subjective. What is great art to one person isn't necessarily to another.

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

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

Art about art and backstory has taken over visual pleasure.

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

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

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

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

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

I expect art to make me scream, art to reveal soul.

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