Top 1200 Passion For Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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