Top 1200 High Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Survival is important, art is secondary. If you aren't alive, how can you create art?

The greatest foe to art is luxury, art cannot live in its atmosphere.

Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

I will die for the art & what I believe in. The art ain't always gon' be polite.

Everyone is entitled to love their body just the way it is. Art is art.

In art it is always as though the question is what the work of art is really about.

Poetry is such an ancient art, and I consider myself young within that art.

Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.

I felt film is art and there are people that constructed that art - and that made me want to be a filmmaker.

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

It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all. We should long ago have become angels had we been capable of paying attention to the experience of art, and allowing ourselves to be changed in accordance with the ideals it expresses. Art only has the capacity, through shock and catharsis, to make the human soul receptive to good. It’s ridiculous to imagine that people can be taught to be good…Art can only give food – a jolt – the occasion – for psychical experience.

New York is more where art is bought than where art is made.

Good art doesn't really have an expiration date on it. That's something to be happy about, if you're making art.

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

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

That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe.

My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater.

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

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

Art is neither a profession nor a hobby. Art is a way of being.

When comparing works of art, it is important that the art itself, and not the artists, be considered.

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

I've always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.

My problem with political art is not that it's bad art necessarily, but that it is terrible politics.

Art history looks at art works and the people who have created them.

Too much art was no art at all. Like candy instead of bread!

Art is not an elitist gift for a few select people. Art is for everyone.

Art should be serious, not a joke. I don't like to laugh about art.

Art is incredibly subjective. What is great art to one person isn't necessarily to another.

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

There are no vital and significant forms of art; there is only art, and precious little of that.

As much as I love art, there is no art as fine as the world we have been given.

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

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art.

Somewhere a portion of contemporary art has to exist as an example of what the art and its context were meant to be.

To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.

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

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

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

when you are dealing with art, any kind of art, your pleasure in making it is what matters most.

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

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

Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else's personality, that is not art.

To sculpt a head of hair with scissors is an art form. It's in pursuit of art.

Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it.

I expect art to make me scream, art to reveal soul.

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

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

I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible.

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

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

Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.

Art about art and backstory has taken over visual pleasure.

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

When the business starts shaping the art, or the delivery of the art, then it's not right.

As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.

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

Art is no crime. It's every artist's responsibility to make art that is meaningful

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