Top 1200 Good Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is black charcoal crushing white paper.

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.

Some teams hold a little more than others. It's an art, but it's not an art I appreciate.

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

Mime is an art beyond words. It is the art of the essential. And you cannot lie. You have to show the truth.

I've had to sell a lot of art, which I've hated to do because I really love the art I have.

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

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

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

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

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Good art can come out of thieves, bootleggers, or horse swipes. People really are afraid to find out just how much hardship and poverty they can stand. They are afraid to find out how tough they are. Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death. Good ones don't have time to bother with success or getting rich. Success is feminine and like a woman; if you cringe before her, she will override you. So the way to treat her is to show her the back of your hand. Then maybe she will do the crawling.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away.

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

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

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

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

In Japan, you can learn how to make a bunch of flowers. This is an art. Tea ceremony, it's an 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.

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

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

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.

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

Art solves nothing, either for the artist himself or for those who receive his art.

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

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?

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

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

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

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

Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art's form.

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

I think for me, any great art is art which communicates human emotion.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Sometimes we look at a work of art and we immediately think that it is German art, but with some we don't, it's not so obvious.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.