Top 1200 Graffiti Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

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

I never understood the low art/high art distinction.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Music is art, and art is an integral part of the human experience.

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

Remember crime against property is not real crime. People look at an oil painting and admire the use of brushstrokes to convey meaning. People look at a graffiti painting and admire the use of a drainpipe to gain access.

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

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

Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. That in art is highest which aims at this.

Art, if it is art, will develop in whatever circumstances it is placed.

Classical art stands for form; romantic art for content.

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

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

Christian art today should be twentieth-century art.

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

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

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

In art, immorality cannot exist. Art is always sacred.

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

Art should be concerned more with life than with art.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the freak-out have broken off discourse with a cultural system which they despise as a cruel, antiquated fraud. They will not bandy words with it. Accept, even momentarily, the conventions of literate linguistic exchange, and you are caught in the net of the old values, of the grammars that can condescend or enslave.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Truman Capote has made lying an art. A minor art.

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

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

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

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

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

Design is the art of planning, and it is the art of making things possible.

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

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.

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

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

All art is contemporary art because it had to be made when it was now.

I cannot tell good art from bad art. I have no eye for it.