Top 1200 High Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

I was scheduled to graduate from high school in 1943, but I was in a course that was supposed to give us four years of high school plus a year of college in our four years. So by the end of my junior year, I would have had enough credits to graduate from high school.

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

Art is art. Television has elevated itself, in certain ways, but it's always pushed people's consciousness.

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.

Art can be very political but that can't be the purpose of art, it can't be the driving force. It isn't with any of the books that I love, anyway.

Polling is an art as well as a science, and the art of crafting good questions is still vital.

Art isn't just paint and music, art is breaking glass and the sounds we make without realizing.

What does art mean to me? I never really think about the 'meaning' of art. Yet, obviously, that's what I do.

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.

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

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

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

What I'm most fascinated by is the ability of art to induce changes, but remain grounded solidly in its art practice.

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

Art is not and never has been subordinate to moral values. Moral values are social values; aesthetic values are human values. Morality seeks to restrain the feelings; art seeks to define them by externalizing them, by giving them significant form. Morality has only one aim - the ideal good; art has quite another aim - the objective truth... art never changes.

Art is not boosterism, it's not propaganda, and it's not spin, but that's not something that art does, and nor has it historically ever done it.

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

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

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

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

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.

I don't believe that art is just for entertainment. I want to create art that is meaningful in some way.

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

Whether something is called art is beside the point. What counts is what happens when you ask it to actually be art.

I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.

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

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

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.

When demagogues and dictators ban art, this is the reason: art is the great solvent of obedient fundamentalism.

Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.

Art when inspired with love leads to higher realms, and that art will open for you the inner life.

Conceptual art might be, for better or worse, (definable as) the art most susceptible to lossy compression.

Art is a kind of artificial memory and the pain which attends all serious art is a sense of that factitiousness.

Music and art well and truly saved my life really - the light switched on when I discovered art.

Drag is very much an art form, and all art goes through ebbs and flows and trends.

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

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

There can be no good art that is international. Art to be vigorous and gesund must use the material at hand.

I love art, painting, and drawing and studying art, like Rembrandt and Van Gogh.

Strictly speaking, there are no holidays for art; art pursues you everywhere, and that's just fine with the artist.

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 art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a stumbling-block...

Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.

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

I've always had standards about writing well. There is art in this business. There is potentially great art.

If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it.

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.

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?

After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture.

Whatever else art is good for, its chief effectiveness lies in propagating more art.

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

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

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.

One learns the art of dying by learning the art of living: how to become master of the present moment.