Top 1200 Performance Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

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

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

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

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

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

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

Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.

I cannot tell good art from bad art. I have no eye for it.

You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.

I really don't know what's good or bad art because all the art I like people tell me is tasteless.

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

Art should be concerned more with life than with art.

When it comes to the street-art world, there are a lot of people who realize if they go out and put up a few pieces of street art and photograph them really well, even if their locations weren't actually that high-profile or dangerous, with the level of exposure they get from the Internet, with a large audience, they can maintain that rebel cache by having it be theoretically documented street art.

True art is alive and inspired by humanity. I believe that art helps us to be free from aggression and depression.

The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.

Christian art today should be twentieth-century art.

Ah, but art and trouble go hand in hand. If you cannot be troubled to create art from your heart, then your art will never trouble the heart of others.

Why I talk so seriously about art is that art is the only thing that helps people stay alive, and it is the only thing that has allowed people to create joy in this insane, suppressive universe. And art is the only thing that they can't get rid of. They've tried, but ultimately they can't stamp it out.

The art market is global now, and theres becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art.

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

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

"Art is the ability to turn one's gaze to the world of oblivion." This is the way in which I understand art at fundamental level.

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

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

It is art to conceal art. -Ars est celare artem

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

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

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

I never understood the low art/high art distinction.

I still believe that the best art - be it music, comedy, painting, etc. - is the art that hasn't been asked for, or is expected.

The art of living is the art of bringing dreams and reality together.

The Difference Between Art and Life is that Art is More Bearable

We might think of dollars as being 'certificates of performance.' The better I serve my fellow man, and the higher the value he places on that service, the more certificates of performance he gives me. The more certificates I earn, the greater my claim on the goods my fellow man produces. That's the morality of the market. In order for one to have a claim on what his fellow man produces, he must first serve him.

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.

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

I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.

Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.

History has proven that art depicting black people cannot be disentangled from the political implications that such art has on their lives. As Africans were being stripped from the continent and sailed across the Atlantic to the Western world, depictions of black people in Western art changed in order to further render them racialized caricatures.

We were told, quite seriously, that there never would be a Canadian art because we had no art tradition.

I love theater, a performance and designing a visual spectacle. It is like creating a composition with clothes, which have to fit the psychology as well as the body of characters. The performance is frozen in time, the clothes have to stay reliable and help to define the story. Fashion can be much more abstract. It needs no story because the woman is the story. She supplies the text and content. Fashion for retail is the opposite of frozen, it has to change and morph constantly to stay relevant - to be the "fashion.".

Your life is a work of art, and in the end, the underlying theme of great art is bravery and hope and love.

I don't want to sign four films at a time, as acting is an art, and art cannot be done without honesty.

I gravitate toward contemporary art. I love great paintings, sculpture, photography, some video art.

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

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

Art - the beautiful thing about art, from my standpoint, is that it has no discrimination.

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

Neither camera, nor lens, nor film determine the quality of pictures; it is the visual perception of the man behind the mechanism which brings them to life. Art contains the allied ideas of making and begetting, of being master of one's craft and able to create. Without these properties no art exists and no photographic art can come into being

After all, the supreme virtue in all art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives art a right to be.

Classical art stands for form; romantic art for content.

The art market is global now, and there's becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art.

Originally I had a fear of rejection at the auditions, which is a lack of self-confidence ultimately. Now I have a production company and when you can look behind the scenes at the casting process, you know it's not about rejection. It might have been the most amazing performance ever, but if the person is too tall, too short, too brown, too white, has blond hair or whatever it is, then not getting the gig may have nothing to do with the performance. You have to learn to treat auditioning as matter-of-factly as drinking a glass of water.

I don't make a division between an art film and commercial art.

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

Art inspires me. Looking at art in a museum, listening to music, reading the works of other writers.

Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying.

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

I wanted to be an animator originally. I went to art school; I went to art college and everything. But that screen was just calling me.

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

The art of avoiding extremes is an art that is drawn on the canvas of maturity and painted with the abstract strokes of many experiences.