Top 1200 Fine Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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?

Art is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt.

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

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.

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.

I was much more interested in literature than I was in art. I just got into art by mistake.

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

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

We should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art.

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.

I really believe in not compromising your art. I feel like I've never compromised my art.

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

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

Somewhere a portion of contemporary art has to exist as an example of what the art and its context were meant to be.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I may discuss love, and I don't mind if two men fall in love, fine. Two women, fine. But I flinch when I think of two Jewish women getting together and having a child because the idea of having two Jewish mothers makes my head explode. I have one; I couldn't handle two.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

This industry [photography], by invading the territories of art, has become art's most mortal enemy.

When you're so drawn to art, to making pictures and looking at art, it's really all you want to think about.

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 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.

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

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

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.

A city's art must give the impression that art is as indispensable a thing as water, or food.

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.

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

Music is an art form too. Sometimes other forms of art can be inspiring to the musician.

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

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

You can't really have art without having a sense of community as art is for others to enjoy as well.

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