Top 1200 Graffiti Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a few art history books.

I never really took a proper art class in college. I just started reading art magazines and going to galleries.

Art in the art world, and culture in general, are branches of the media, which produces our political and social thinking climate.

In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.

Art is the most benign cultural practice, and yet art has an upper bound of personal revelation that is so far away it is basically a horizon.

Art, like science, progresses, and to me it's bizarre that a lot of acclaimed and popular and respectable books are not advancing the art form.

That's why I love jiu-jitsu, this is the best martial art in the world. It's an art that seeks the peace, to dominate your opponent.

I'm making some of the greatest art being made now. It'll take the art world ten years to get around to it.

I think a single sentence by Van Gogh is better than the whole work of all the art critics and art historians put together.

The art of making films is a collaborative art. As a composer, you're always working with the cinematographer because he's so much the heart of the world they've created on film.

Art too is just a way of living, and however one lives, one can, without knowing, prepare for it; in everything real one is closer to it, more its neighbor, than in the unreal half-artistic professions, which, while they pretend to be close to art, in practice deny and attack the existence of all art - as, for example, all of journalism does and almost all criticism and three quarters of what is called (and wants to be called) literature.

I want my art to make people look at the world in a new way. I mean, what's the point of the art of writing if it doesn't take you into the mysterious?

I am a writer and my faith in the world of art is intense, but not irrational, nor naïve - because art takes us and makes us take a journey beyond price, beyond cost, into bearing witness to the world as it is and as it should be. Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.

I think the biggest thing that people fear when it comes to art becoming a business is those authentic, pure aspirations of art being compromised.

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another purpose to it.

Let's not forget: This all began when you had eight- and nine-year-old children writing graffiti on walls. Their parents were told: "You will never see them again. If you want to have children, go to your wife and make new ones." [Bashar] Assad's people rebelled. He crushed them brutally. But his military could not protect him. So he asked the Iranians to come in and help.

Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it's in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one's own.

Do not copy nature. Art is an abstraction. Rather, bring your art forth by dreaming in front of her and think more of creation.

I just feel that art is more important than ever, that art is something that can unify us, that can make America stronger.

The real power of Jazz is that a group of people can come together and create improvised art and negotiate their agendas... and that negotiation is the art

Speed, the fundamental condition of the activities of our day is the power of photography, indeed the modern art of today, the art of the split second.

The poster art over the years, art with social critique in it, has always been trying to make that point - that we are larger than they are.

I really love advertising art of the '50s and the way mid-century design was often represented in jazzy, fast art.

I started making art with art therapy. It's what I know how to do. I got a lot of criticism for that when I was in school. But I think it works for me.

More important than a work of art itself is what it will sow. Art can die, a painting can disappear. What counts is the seed.

Good art has everything you need to know about it in the work, not on a wall label. Art is here to take us beyond language.

When you think about Dada and the great moments in Modern Art, it's always the sense of when you're not sure that art is most likely to be occurring.

Duchamp is known for calling a thing art, rather than making it. A lot of that is picked up in pop art, too.

I find above all that the expression, atonal music, is most unfortunate — it is on a par with calling flying the art of not falling, or swimming the art of not drowning.

Movies become art after editing. Instead of just reproducing reality, they juxtapose images of it. That implies expression; that's art.

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

If some of this art is not for you, that's fine. Art appreciation is a subjective matter, and we each bring our own experience, knowledge and taste to the party.

Baseball is beautiful....the supreme performing art. It combines in perfect harmony the magnificent features of ballet, drama, art, and ingenuity.

I've always wanted to make Australian art interesting. To get a different audience watching art documentaries would be great.

All art is in the last analysis an endeavor to condense as out of the flying vapor of the world an image of human perfection, and for its own and not for the art's sake.

There are very few good writers about art, and you either get art-fashion writing with trendy views or you get very traditional writing. Occasionally, you get people who can write in an interesting way. Really, I think in a sense art writing needs to be renewed as well. It's in a pretty bad condition.

I don't really have any great interest in writing for movies. Comics, to me, is a much more promising field. There's still a lot of ground to be broken in comics, whereas movies, to a degree... I don't know. They're a wonderful art form, but they're not my favorite art form. They might not even be in the top five of my favorite art forms.

Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't.

Art is craft: all art is always and essentially a work of craft: but in the true work of art, before the craft and after it, is some essential durable core of being, which is what the craft works on, and shows, and sets free. The statue in the stone. How does the artist find that, see it, before it's visible? That is a real question.

I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value?

All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether you engage in the art process yourself or you're an audience member.

The art that I do is for the people. It is about engaging a new audience who wouldn't necessarily go to art galleries and museums and painting on the street is the best way to do that.

The current demoralization of the art world is attributable at least in part to museum interference, ideological and practical, with ongoing creation in art.

It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.

Romantic fiction is the only purely feminine art form. All other art forms were shaped and are dominated by men.

Art is more than a series of images that are disembodied. Art is objects that live in real places, economies, spaces, architecture.

The ultimate, if distant, aim of the Bauhaus is the unified work of art - the great structure - in which there is no distinction between monumental and decorative art.

All art, from the paintings on the walls of cave dwellers to art created today, is autobiographical because it comes from the secret place in the soul where imagination resides.

Postmodernism does not facilitate better art. It rationalizes inferior art by wrapping it in words - a suit of armor with nobody inside.

Art was as much in the activity as in the results. Works of art were not just the finished product, but the thought, the action, the process that created them.

In the past, traditional art was based on making manifest what is enduring in man, like love, jealousy, hatred, envy, and greed... . Today art has to look again at these unchanging qualities, because society is no longer unchanging. It is up to art today to show us what has become of these unchanging qualities in a world which is moving and changing.

Art as a whole is a riddle. Another way of putting this is to say that art expresses something while at the same time hiding it.

I wonder what art is about and I'm not sure that what I do is art because I'm a photographer, not an artist. But whatever you do, the secret is to do what you think you ought to do, and do the hell out of it.

Pain s the truth of art. Art is not a hobby or a pastime. It is the result of an internal battle royal, one between the quest for safety and the desire to matter.

Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does.

When I met Steve Kaufman, I thought he was Gene Simmons, but what an artist talent he is. He will be an art force in the art world to deal with.

The conventional notions of art have changed, and a lot of things done today are considered works of art that would have been rejected in the past.

No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art...our world would have remained a jungle.

The idea of "making art for art's sake" makes no sense for me. Each area of my life, all the roles I play, influences the others.