Top 1200 Performance Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

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

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

Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art.

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

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

The art of surrender is the art of getting out of the way of your own growth.

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

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

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

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

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

I don't think music is an art any more than cooking food is an art.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Blest be the art that can immortalize,--the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it.

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

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

I think people should just make art and let the art speak for itself.

Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this.

I think it's so important for us to make art and to be loud and to resist with our art.

Street photography is art and if art is a crime, please God, forgive me.

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

The art that we should be doing today, in the twenty-first century, is art that is not for the museum.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Artwork is not like a commercial business; there is no such thing as a schedule for art. You can't hurry art.

O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?

Money issue looms so large in art now. And it has absolutely nothing to do with art.

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

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

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

Art is useful. Through art we can start building a world that works differently.

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!

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

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

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

Art should be serious, not a joke. I dont like to laugh about art.

You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.

Art about art and backstory has taken over visual pleasure.

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

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