Top 1200 Comic Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Before the Conquest all art was of the people, and popular art has never ceased to exist in Mexico. The art called popular is fugitive in character, with less of the impersonal and intellectual characteristics of the schools. It is the work of talent nourished by personal experience and that of the community - rather than being taken from the experiences of painters in other times and other cultures.

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

Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.

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

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

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

Good art doesn't really have an expiration date on it. That's something to be happy about, if you're making art.

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

Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.

Although my everyday artwork is tattoo oriented, I definitely do not try to limit my art or art mediums.

The art and architecture of the past that we know is that which remains. The best is that which remains where it was painted, placed or built. Most of the art of the past that could be moved was taken by conquerors. Almost all recent art is conquered as soon as it's made, since it's first shown for sale and once sold is exhibited as foreign in the alien museums. The public has no idea of art other than that it is something portable that can be bought. There is no constructive effort; there is no cooperative effort. This situation is primitive in relation to a few earlier and better times.

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

The public needs art, and it is the responsibility of a ’self-proclaimed artist’ to realize the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for the few and ignore the masses. … I am interested in making art to be experienced and explored by as many individuals as possible with as many different individual ideas about the given piece with no final meaning attached. The viewer creates the reality, the meaning, the conception of the piece. I am merely a middleman trying to bring ideas together.

I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

Music and art well and truly saved my life really - the light switched on when I discovered art.

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

What I'm most fascinated by is the ability of art to induce changes, but remain grounded solidly in its art practice.

One of the most striking aspects of abstract art's appearance is her nakedness, an art stripped bare.

To me, this is the most awesome kind of art. When the music is right, everybody is as much a part of the art.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Art is consumed in so many different ways. You could say people don't stop to appreciate art. On the other hand, people can consume art more quickly. Twitter, videos posted online - how do you utilize that? How do you identify yourself as an individual when you're sitting at this massive dinner table of the world with everyone on, from Kansas to Dubai?

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

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

If Graffiti is art and art is a crime then how come piccaso never done time?

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

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

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

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

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

Conceptual art is entirely word-bound. It is, in fact, the kind of art that is exhausted in its verbal description.

The art of healing, the art of ecstasy, the art of God-consciousness has millions of names in mystic terms. It has to do with rhythm and reality. When the body is in rhythm, there is ease. When the body, or any part of the body goes out of rhythm, there is dis-ease.

Concrete, Steel & Paint portrays the core values of restorative justice-respect, responsibility and relationships-expressed through art. it is art that involves victims, offenders and communities in a dialogue that is sometimes difficult and painful, sometimes reconciling, but always engaging. As one prisoner says in the film, 'We have come together collectively through art.' It will be a great discussion tool for college classes, community groups and others interested in issues of justice, community-building, conflict resolution and socially-engaged art.

To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art does not live in the present, it must not be considered at all.

Executive Severance, a laugh out loud comic mystery novel, epitomizes our current cultural moment in that it is born from the juxtaposition of authorial invention and technological communication innovation. Merging creative text with new electronic context, Robert K. Blechman's novel, which originally appeared as Twitter entries, can be read on a cell phone. His tweets which merge to form an entertaining novel can't be beat. Hold the phone; exalt in the mystery-engage with Blechman's story which signals the inception of a new literary art form.

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

Art is a kind of artificial memory and the pain which attends all serious art is a sense of that factitiousness.

The best stuff is done by people who love it, whether that's high art or low art, whatever that is.

Sometimes we look at a work of art and we immediately think that it is German art, but with some we don't, it's not so obvious.

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

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

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

There's no such thing beneath the heavens as conditions favorable to art. Art must crash through or perish.

Whether something is called art is beside the point. What counts is what happens when you ask it to actually be art.

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

Romantic art is always stylized: the better the art, the cleaner and more attractive and intelligent the stylization.

Art is not and never has been subordinate to moral values. Moral values are social values; aesthetic values are human values. Morality seeks to restrain the feelings; art seeks to define them by externalizing them, by giving them significant form. Morality has only one aim - the ideal good; art has quite another aim - the objective truth... art never changes.

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.

The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a stumbling-block...

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

Part of the strength of Pollock and Rothko's art, in fact, is this doubt as to whether art may be there at all.

My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? ... my art gives meaning to my life.

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

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: writing picture books is an art - the art of word choice.