Top 1200 Conceptual Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

What does art mean to me? I never really think about the 'meaning' of art. Yet, obviously, that's what I do.

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

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

The art of research [is] the art of making difficult problems soluble by devising means of getting at them.

A master of an art is someone who's been mastered by the art. They've become so one with what they teach that you can't tell the teacher from the student.

If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it.

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.

Internet can provide the power to believe in art in new formulas, because it is the newest medium for art.

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

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

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

Art isn't just paint and music, art is breaking glass and the sounds we make without realizing.

The greatest art in life is to believe in Christ. That art is learned only in the Holy Spirit's school.

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

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

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

Cooking hasn't yet been accepted as the art form it is. It should be on the level with any of the other art forms.

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.

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

Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.

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

Art should be concerned more with life than with art.

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

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

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

Drag is very much an art form, and all art goes through ebbs and flows and trends.

Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.

Music has always been a part of me and art in general. I love visual art as well.

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

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

Art is art. Television has elevated itself, in certain ways, but it's always pushed people's consciousness.

Art when inspired with love leads to higher realms, and that art will open for you the inner life.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I never understood the low art/high art distinction.

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.

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

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

Christian art today should be twentieth-century art.

If you worry about how good the art is, you're never going to make your own art.

After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture.

Denigrating art you don't understand doesn't hurt the art - it reveals something about your willingness to learn.

Art is the free expression of the artist and they tried to stop us from expressing ourselves, our art.

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.

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

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

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

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

Art is not boosterism, it's not propaganda, and it's not spin, but that's not something that art does, and nor has it historically ever done it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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