Top 1200 Conceptual Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

After all, the supreme virtue in all art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives art a right to be.

I gravitate toward contemporary art. I love great paintings, sculpture, photography, some video 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.

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

People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science.

Efforts to revive the art principles of the past at best produce works of art that resemble a stillborn child.

It is a significant symbol that street art is gaining increased attention and credibility in the art world and that's a good thing.

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

Neither camera, nor lens, nor film determine the quality of pictures; it is the visual perception of the man behind the mechanism which brings them to life. Art contains the allied ideas of making and begetting, of being master of one's craft and able to create. Without these properties no art exists and no photographic art can come into being

The art market is global now, and theres becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art.

I personally don't care for abstract art. I have always felt, 'To each his own.' There's art out there for everybody.

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

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

But perhaps my art is the art of a lunatic, I thought, mere glittering quicksilver, a blue soul breaking in upon my pictures.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.

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

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

Why I talk so seriously about art is that art is the only thing that helps people stay alive, and it is the only thing that has allowed people to create joy in this insane, suppressive universe. And art is the only thing that they can't get rid of. They've tried, but ultimately they can't stamp it out.

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

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

The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems.

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

When it comes to the street-art world, there are a lot of people who realize if they go out and put up a few pieces of street art and photograph them really well, even if their locations weren't actually that high-profile or dangerous, with the level of exposure they get from the Internet, with a large audience, they can maintain that rebel cache by having it be theoretically documented street art.

I really don't know what's good or bad art because all the art I like people tell me is tasteless.

Ah, but art and trouble go hand in hand. If you cannot be troubled to create art from your heart, then your art will never trouble the heart of others.

My dark little secret is that I don't actually believe many people in the art world have much feeling for art.

Art - be it painting, sculpture, music - they are all creations, they are creative acts. I consider a film, with everything that is involved in it, an art.

The syllogism art for art's sake refers to that kind of painting which disregards, or is contrary to, public taste.

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

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

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

Classical art stands for form; romantic art for content.

I strongly reject any conceptual scheme that places our options on a line, and holds that the only alternative to a pair of extreme positions lies somewhere between them. More fruitful perspectives often require that we step off the line to a site outside the dichotomy.

I believe that an art exhibition can be engaging, fun and deeply intellectually satisfying and serious. These are not contradictory concepts in art.

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

If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.

I always want to do something that just sort of fits the mood. It's supposed to help the song, it's not supposed to take away from the song or re-contextualize it. I always feel like the less you make it a conceptual territorial debut, the better.

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

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

A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it.

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

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

I wanted to be an animator originally. I went to art school; I went to art college and everything. But that screen was just calling me.

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

I'm just open to new experiences. I've never really settled down into one art. I like to be nomadic with my art.