Top 1200 Narrative Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

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.

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

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

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

How life did imitate art sometimes. And the cruder the art, the closer the imitation.

Art solves nothing, either for the artist himself or for those who receive his art.

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

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

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

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.

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.

All art (after Duchamp) is conceptual (in nature) because art only exists conceptually.

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

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

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

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

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

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

If you worry about how good the art is, you're never going to make your own art.

To make people free is the aim of art, therefore art for me is the science of freedom.

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

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

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

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

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

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not 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?

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

I think for me, any great art is art which communicates human emotion.

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.

Somewhere a portion of contemporary art has to exist as an example of what the art and its context were meant to be.

Some teams hold a little more than others. It's an art, but it's not an art I appreciate.

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

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

Art in the age of the digital image is completely different from experiencing art in physical form.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

When you're so drawn to art, to making pictures and looking at art, it's really all you want to think about.

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

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

The art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its potency.

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

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.

Good art doesn't really have an expiration date on it. That's something to be happy about, if you're making art.

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

If Graffiti is art and art is a crime then how come piccaso never done time?

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

Mime is an art beyond words. It is the art of the essential. And you cannot lie. You have to show the truth.

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

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is black charcoal crushing white paper.

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