Top 1200 Narrative Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Being critical of art is a way of showing art respect.

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.

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.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: writing picture books is an art - the art of word choice.

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

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.

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.

When I was in my studio I didn't give a damn what sex I was... I thought art is art.

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

What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

In art, immorality cannot exist. Art is always sacred.

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

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

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

Art should be concerned more with life than with art.

I think there's art, and then there's illustration. Art comes from a deeper place.

Music is art, and art is an integral part of the human experience.

I love making art... It's largely how I see myself. I'm an artist; therefore I have to make art.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The best stuff is done by people who love it, whether that's high art or low art, whatever that is.

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.

Classical art stands for form; romantic art for content.

People don't buy and sell art based on the personality of the artist. Or there wouldn't be much art bought and sold.

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

The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.

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

To me, this is the most awesome kind of art. When the music is right, everybody is as much a part of the art.

There is no regional art. The only region left is the art magazine.

Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.

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

If it looks like art, chances are it's somebody else's art.

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

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

The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.

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

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

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

My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? ... my art gives meaning to my life.

Art is not boosterism, it's not propaganda, and it's not spin, but that's not something that art does, and nor has it historically ever done it.

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

Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography.

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

Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place.

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

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.

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

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

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

The greatest art in life is to believe in Christ. That art is learned only in the Holy Spirit's school.

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

Art is art. Television has elevated itself, in certain ways, but it's always pushed people's consciousness.

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