Top 1200 Japanese Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

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

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

I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

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

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.

The art of research [is] the art of making difficult problems soluble by devising means of getting at them.

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

Art is the free expression of the artist and they tried to stop us from expressing ourselves, our art.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A master of an art is someone who's been mastered by the art. They've become so one with what they teach that you can't tell the teacher from the student.

One of the most striking aspects of abstract art's appearance is her nakedness, an art stripped bare.

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

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.

Romantic art is always stylized: the better the art, the cleaner and more attractive and intelligent the stylization.

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

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

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

Although my everyday artwork is tattoo oriented, I definitely do not try to limit my art or art mediums.

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

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 is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.

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

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

There's no such thing beneath the heavens as conditions favorable to art. Art must crash through or perish.

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

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

The price we sell things for is not important. What is important is we sell art that has to be replaced. You become good in art by doing art. The more you sell, the more you must produce.

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

I think there is a debate in the arts about, you know, whether we must strive for art for art's sake, and you know, kind of try to keep political debate out of our work. And to that I say, I'd like you to show me an example of, you know, this so-called apolitical art. I don't think there's any such thing.

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

Christian art today should be twentieth-century art.

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

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

The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt.

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

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

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

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

Cooking hasn't yet been accepted as the art form it is. It should be on the level with any of the other art forms.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.