Top 1200 Fine Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

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

I love making art... It's largely how I see myself. I'm an artist; therefore I have to make 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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Christian art today should be twentieth-century art.

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

Classical art stands for form; romantic art for content.

Art should be concerned more with life than with art.

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

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

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

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

Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.

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

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

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

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

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

Art can be very political but that can't be the purpose of art, it can't be the driving force. It isn't with any of the books that I love, anyway.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I never understood the low art/high art distinction.

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

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

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

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

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

One learns the art of dying by learning the art of living: how to become master of the present moment.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You never know when contemporary art is going to insinuate itself into a normally art-free zone.

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