Top 1200 Contemporary Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

True art is alive and inspired by humanity. I believe that art helps us to be free from aggression and depression.

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

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

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.

Christian art today should be twentieth-century art.

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

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

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

Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.

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

Any art which can be subjected to an analytical process is, by this very fact, removed from the possibility of being art.

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

Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, even if only in the art of living.

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

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

By my definition, most art has nothing to do with oil paint or marble. Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.

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

I never understood the low art/high art distinction.

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

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

Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.

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

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

One of the challenges to our nation today is overcoming the notion that art is kind of a nice-to-have, when in reality art is a need-to-have.

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

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

Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise. As an actor, you're giving it up, you're at the mercy of so many other people.

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

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

You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.

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

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

The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied.

Everyone should be able to make art about ideas without getting cornered into self-art.

Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

Do not set out to make Mexican art, or American, Chinese, or Russian art. Think in terms of universality.

Your life is a work of art, and in the end, the underlying theme of great art is bravery and hope and love.

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

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

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

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

Art itself is knowledge of the spiritual world. Art is information from higher forces, by those who are talented. I'm not jiving.

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

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

"Art is the ability to turn one's gaze to the world of oblivion." This is the way in which I understand art at fundamental level.

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.

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

The art of avoiding extremes is an art that is drawn on the canvas of maturity and painted with the abstract strokes of many experiences.

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

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

The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.

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

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.