Top 1200 Political Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I like the elitism of the art world. I think art for the people is a terrible idea.

Ive always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.

We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves.

I received my training at an art academy, so what I produce is art. That's what is artistic about my photographs.

Art is a severe business; most serious when employed in grand and sacred objects. The artist stands higher than art, higher than the object. He uses art for his purposes, and deals with the object after his own fashion.

America does not need another political campaign based on denial and avoidance of some of our real problems. It needs a crusade to reform and renew our country, its institutions and political system.

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

Andy Warhol's art wasn't that interesting to me. He was more interesting to me as a person. He was art himself. I don't even think he was really into art, per se. He may have liked to do it, but I think he was more into people being into him.

In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.

The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.

Art is an idea that has found its perfect visual expression. And design is the vehicle by which this expression is made possible. Art is a noun, and design is a noun and also a verb. Art is a product and design is a process. Design is the foundation of all the arts.

The purpose of art is higher than art. What we are really interested in are masterpieces of humanity.

The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.

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

I believe that the biblical teaching is clear. It always contests political power. It incites to "counterpower," to "positive" criticism, to an irreducible dialogue (like that between king and prophet in Israel), to antistatism, to a decentralizing of the relation, to an extreme relativizing of everything political, to an anti-ideology, to a questioning of all that claims either power or dominion (in other words, of all things political), and finally, if we may use a modern term, to a kind of "anarchism" (so long as we do not relate the term to the anarchist teaching of the nineteenth century).

Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.

I do think that it is one of the eternal questions about art, though - is all art intrinsically selfish?

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

To me, the art of cinema is the same as the art of painting. The artist takes a 2D medium and gives you the illusion of depth. If you look at any of the great paintings, you have the illusion of depth. Which is part of the art. The same with the great movies.

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

I think that high art reposes on popular art, without one there cannot be another.

There are many more important things in life than fashion. But fashion, to me, is part of pop culture. And I'm an art collector. I'm obsessed with art and pop culture. And I say that there is fame, fashion, art, music and entertainment, including celebrity, that really moves the needle in society.

Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.

The whole art of meditation is, how to leave the personality easily, move to the center, and be not a person. Just to be and not be a person is the whole art of meditation, the whole art of inner ecstasy.

Whether you're talking about political borders or aesthetic divisions (and clearly, the political ones have much more tragic consequences), it seems like once they are created, we want to patrol them, enforce them.

An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but a plaything.

In magic we have a variety of "uses" for our art beyond magic itself, which reminds me of the notion of art therapy. The rendering of art inferior to therapy is an interesting one: interesting in the sense that it makes me want to vomit angrily.

Cinema is a composite art into which you can include all conceivable art or entertainment forms. In film, I can work with novelistic elements, comedy, drama, music, and other forms of entertainment. Film is a versatile expression, combining all elements into one art form.

It's a blessing to have people who love the art that you make and who are inspired by the art you create and are a part of.

Art is what we do. Culture is what is done to us. A photograph of an art object is not the art object. An essay about an artist's work is not the artist's work.

What's the point of art, of any art, if it doesn't let us see with a little bit of objectivity where we are?

The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words.

Art in its highest form is art that serves and instructs society and human development.

I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

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

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

The art of living is simply the art of using energy in an intelligent and creative way.

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

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

There is no such thing as Christian art or secular art - writing, painting, drawing, whatever it is.

I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art.

In art, there is neither past nor future. The art that is not in the present will never be.

Voting is not an act of political freedom. It is an act of political conformity. Those who refuse to vote are not expressing silence. They are screaming in the politician's ear: 'You do not represent me. This is not a process in which my voice matters. I do not believe you.'

Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city, where gradually, out of desire and despair, a few key words, then a little syntax make a clearing in the silence. Art... is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar... We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother-tongue.

We may have to have a geo-political regrouping or major geo-political changes.

We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted.

Art is about going a little nuts... Kids do art for fun. It's playing.

Beauty is a type of art everyone is trying to perfect, but no one realizes it's abstract art.

Art has become more than painting, sculpture or music: art is more than Van Gogh painting a landscape or Wagner composing an opera. The whole of reality itself has become the object of art.

I'm interested in Jackson Pollock's kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it's nothing, and yet it's incredible.

In order to create art today, you have to compromise your art somewhat and be a businessman.

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

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

I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.

My pick for Best Political Move of the Year, which is the decisive (ph) and this means it is actually the best political movement is Bill Clinton getting on the phone and encouraging Donald Trump to run for the president.

Improvisation is the art of becoming sound. It is the only art in which a human being can and must become the music he or she is making. Improvisation is the only musical art which predicated entirely on human trust and love.

Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.

A great work of art is one that truly moves and inspires you. You yourself must be moved. Don't look at art with others' eyes. Don't listen to music with others' ears. You must react to art with your own feelings, your own heart and mind.

I think with art you have to do a bit of transforming of the subject to make the art worth having.