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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.
I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.
The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.
The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.
I think it's so important for us to make art and to be loud and to resist with our art.
To me, the art of cinema is the same as the art of painting. The artist takes a 2D medium and gives you the illusion of depth. If you look at any of the great paintings, you have the illusion of depth. Which is part of the art. The same with the great movies.
There is no such thing as Christian art or secular art - writing, painting, drawing, whatever it is.
In art, there is neither past nor future. The art that is not in the present will never be.
When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.
The art of living is simply the art of using energy in an intelligent and creative way.
I don't think music is an art any more than cooking food is an art.
I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art.
Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.
The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words.
We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted.
I think people should just make art and let the art speak for itself.
Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this.
Movies are immortal art - the first new art since Greek drama.
Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.
Money issue looms so large in art now. And it has absolutely nothing to do with art.
Art is about going a little nuts... Kids do art for fun. It's playing.
I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.
Art is a severe business; most serious when employed in grand and sacred objects. The artist stands higher than art, higher than the object. He uses art for his purposes, and deals with the object after his own fashion.
Cinema is a composite art into which you can include all conceivable art or entertainment forms. In film, I can work with novelistic elements, comedy, drama, music, and other forms of entertainment. Film is a versatile expression, combining all elements into one art form.
A great work of art is one that truly moves and inspires you. You yourself must be moved. Don't look at art with others' eyes. Don't listen to music with others' ears. You must react to art with your own feelings, your own heart and mind.
We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves.
Beauty is a type of art everyone is trying to perfect, but no one realizes it's abstract art.
Art is useful. Through art we can start building a world that works differently.
I received my training at an art academy, so what I produce is art. That's what is artistic about my photographs.
I do think that it is one of the eternal questions about art, though - is all art intrinsically selfish?
Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.
The art of surrender is the art of getting out of the way of your own growth.
An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but a plaything.
My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art.
Ive always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.
I honestly think that's one of the greatest motivators of art - the fear of not making great art.
You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
It's a blessing to have people who love the art that you make and who are inspired by the art you create and are a part of.
I'm interested in Jackson Pollock's kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it's nothing, and yet it's incredible.
The purpose of art is higher than art. What we are really interested in are masterpieces of humanity.
I like the elitism of the art world. I think art for the people is a terrible idea.
What's the point of art, of any art, if it doesn't let us see with a little bit of objectivity where we are?
I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.
Art has become more than painting, sculpture or music: art is more than Van Gogh painting a landscape or Wagner composing an opera. The whole of reality itself has become the object of art.
In magic we have a variety of "uses" for our art beyond magic itself, which reminds me of the notion of art therapy. The rendering of art inferior to therapy is an interesting one: interesting in the sense that it makes me want to vomit angrily.
Art is what we do. Culture is what is done to us. A photograph of an art object is not the art object. An essay about an artist's work is not the artist's work.
I come from a family that does not believe in art to this day. They think art is vanity.
Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art.
O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?
Street photography is art and if art is a crime, please God, forgive me.
I got really into art at school and then went onto art college in California.
In order to create art today, you have to compromise your art somewhat and be a businessman.
Art should be serious, not a joke. I dont like to laugh about art.
In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.
Artwork is not like a commercial business; there is no such thing as a schedule for art. You can't hurry art.
Andy Warhol's art wasn't that interesting to me. He was more interesting to me as a person. He was art himself. I don't even think he was really into art, per se. He may have liked to do it, but I think he was more into people being into him.
Blest be the art that can immortalize,--the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it.
Art in its highest form is art that serves and instructs society and human development.
I think that high art reposes on popular art, without one there cannot be another.
I think with art you have to do a bit of transforming of the subject to make the art worth having.
