Top 1200 Graffiti Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Art is not journalism. In art, you don't make it to convey a message.

What I'm doing is art - it's low-brow art but there's a magic in that.

Poetry is not an art or a branch of art: it's something more.

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.

Great art must be a living thing, or it is not art at all.

The moment you try to institutionalize art, it ceases to be art.

Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.

There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning.

It is not the poet's business to save man's soul but to make it worth saving . . . However, few poets have written with a clear theory of art for art's sake, it is by that theory alone that their work has been, or can be, judged; -and rightly so if we remember that art embraces all life and all humanity, and sees in the temporary and fleeting doctrines of conservative or revolutionary only the human grandeur or passion that inspires them.

Life is sacred. Life is art. Life is sacred art. The art of sacred living means being a holy actor, acting from the soul rather than the ego. The soul is out of space and time and hence always available, an ever-present potential of our being. It is up to each of us to celebrate and to actualize our being and to turn each meal, conversation, outfit, letter, and so on, into art. Every mundane activity is an opportunity for full authentic self-expression. The soul is our artistic self, our capacity for transforming every dimension of our lives into art and theater.

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

The art of teaching is clarity and the art of learning is to listen.

Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that's all.

I do preach the idea of individualism as in not adapting any kind of style or model other than that one of your own. I always found it strange in art history when studying about the different guilds and movements. It sounded too contrived and having to follow devised parameters to create art. I personally am not a team player in that manner. The art should be labeled by the artist's name only.

Some people in the art world bemoan the hedge fund millionaires spending freely to acquire ostentatious displays of wealth and coolth for their giddily chic designer duplexes. Others bemoan art being treated as a commodity. But most of the bemoaning is because the art world is stuffed full of bemoaners, bemoaning about everything.

I do think that there's art that is tortured, but I prefer art that has the joy in it.

I think that black people making art, women making art, and certainly black women making art is a disruptive endeavor - and it's one that I enjoy extremely.

Art- speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar but his art, if it be art, will tell you the truth of his day and that is all that matters. Away with eternal truth. The truth lives from day to day, and the marvelous Plato of yesterday is chiefly bosh today.

Art was carrying me a lot of the time. When you're accustomed to playing with Art, and you play with other drummers, it's as if the bottom dropped out.

If politics is the art of the possible, theatre is the art of the impossible.

It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves.

After all, the goal is not making art. It is living a life. Those who live their lives will leave the stuff that is really art.

All art is abstract, because art is an abstraction of the truth.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

Art is messy, art is chaos - so you need a system.

My concern is never art, but always what art can be used for.

Art for art's sake is dead, if it ever lived.

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.

It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes.

The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

TV is art. It's mass art. It's accessible to the masses.

Like a work of art, we exceed our materials. Science needs art to frame the mystery, but art needs science so that not everything is a mystery. Neither truth alone is our solution, for our reality exists in plural

I don't wish power, only art -art and passion.

When your art fails, make better art.

Art should look like art, trees and flowers and people, not weird shapes and splotches of color all smeared together.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

I love art, I collect mostly modern art.

There are always forces at work in a society, certainly in America, which are really forces of censorship -either religious bodies or zealots who are always putting pressure on things, whether it's books or art or film. And 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 like the idea of nationalism, but on the other hand, I do see that there is a difference between British art, German art and Chinese art. This is because of the history, because each country has different history and each country reads and teaches that history differently.

I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art.

I don’t care about the word ‘art’ because it has been so discredited. So I want to get rid of it. There is an unnecessary adoration of ‘art’ today.

Most of the faint intimations of immortality of which we are occasionally aware would seem to arise out of Art or the materials of Art.

Angling is an art, and an art worth your learning.

Art has always been aware of itself as art.

I am for an art that grows up not knowing it is art at all.

I'm art. You're art. We are God's greatest works, simple as that.

There is a small world of people who are very interested in contemporary art and a slightly bigger world of people who look at contemporary art. But then there is a much larger world that doesn't realise how influential art is on things that they actually look at.

With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art.

Art is - representing the beautiful. There must be Art in everything.

Art is what we call...the thing an artist does. It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it hangs on a wall or you eat it. What matters, what makes it art, is that the person who made it overcame the resistance, ignored the voice of doubt and made something worth making. Something risky. Something human. Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.

I like real art. It's difficult to define 'real' but it is the best word for describing what I like to get out of art and what the best art has. It has the ability to convince you that it's present - that it's there. You could say it's authentic... but real is actually a better word, broad as it may be.

For me, art is such a wide concept - anything can be art.

If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?

There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium! The highest degree of delirium! Plunged in burning dementia! Art is the most enrapturing orgy within man's reach.. Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn't bore.

I'll always err on the side of art for art's sake.

All science touches on art; all art has its scientific side.

My fear of life is necessary to me, as is my illness. Without anxiety and illness, I am a ship without a rudder. My art is grounded in reflections over being different from others. My sufferings are part of my self and my art. They are indistinguishable from me, and their destruction would destroy my art. I want to keep those sufferings

If art doesn't move people, then art has failed.

In a sense, the first (if not necessarily the prime) function of a novelist, of ANY artist, is to entertain. If the poem, painting, play or novel does not immediately engage one's surface interest then it has failed. Whatever else it may or may not be, art is also entertainment. Bad art fails to entertain. Good art does something in addition.