Top 1200 Original Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If advertising is not an official or state art, it is nonetheless clearly art.

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

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

Comic art is just different. It's art on its own terms.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Art leaves something to the listener; that's what separates art from craft.

Conceptual art might be, for better or worse, (definable as) the art most susceptible to lossy compression.

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

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.

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

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

Design is the art of planning, and it is the art of making things possible.

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

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

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.

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

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.