Top 1200 Narrative Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

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

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

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

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

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

The art of living is simply the art of using energy in an intelligent and creative way.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I got really into art at school and then went onto art college in California.

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

Beauty is a type of art everyone is trying to perfect, but no one realizes it's abstract art.

Art about art and backstory has taken over visual pleasure.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I honestly think that's one of the greatest motivators of art - the fear of not making great art.

The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art.

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

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

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

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