Top 1200 Metropolitan Museum Of Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

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

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

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

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

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

I did with my wife a comic book for the Raynham Hall Museum in Long Island. They sell the book every single time a busload of kids comes in.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The quality of the Neues Museum's construction is extraordinary even by German standards, and people can smell that quality. The concept would not have been so convincing without it.

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

A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery. But it does have to be furnished with things that mean something to you.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

The first essential to success in the art you practice is respect for the art itself.

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

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

Art about art and backstory has taken over visual pleasure.

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

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

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

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

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

If I say 'Find me an interesting painting' to Google, someday a robot could go around the Picasso museum and take a picture for me.

Computers let people avoid people, going out to explore. It's so different to just open a website instead of looking at a Picasso in a museum in Paris.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Writing a novel is like an amusement park or a museum or a city. You go into that place and you have certain experiences and those experiences, hopefully, have some impact on you.

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

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

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

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