Top 1200 Contemporary Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

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

I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible.

I like the elitism of the art world. I think art for the people is a terrible idea.

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

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

I don't think music is an art any more than cooking food is an art.

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

I think that high art reposes on popular art, without one there cannot be another.

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

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

Art about art and backstory has taken over visual pleasure.

It's a blessing to have people who love the art that you make and who are inspired by the art you create and are a part of.

I've always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.

Great art always transcends its culture, while lesser art merely reflects it.

Poetry is such an ancient art, and I consider myself young within that art.

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

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

The greatest foe to art is luxury, art cannot live in its atmosphere.

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

Street photography is art and if art is a crime, please God, forgive me.

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

How life did imitate art sometimes. And the cruder the art, the closer the imitation.

O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?

What's the point of art, of any art, if it doesn't let us see with a little bit of objectivity where we are?

The art of living is simply the art of using energy in an intelligent and creative way.

I'm interested in Jackson Pollock's kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it's nothing, and yet it's incredible.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

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

I love art, painting, and drawing and studying art, like Rembrandt and Van Gogh.

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

Ive always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.

Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.

I received my training at an art academy, so what I produce is art. That's what is artistic about my photographs.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

In art it is always as though the question is what the work of art is really about.

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

The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

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

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

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