Top 1200 Political Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

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.

Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.

But artistically, my art I kept very separate from my political beliefs, deliberately and very, very rarely would I allow that kind of thing into it.

As far as art's concerned, I probably like modern art more than traditional art.

I'm married to an artist. I get a lot of inspiration from art, from the lighting in art, from the compositions in art, from the textures, and all of that. I'm always playing with it.

While appropriation art is critical to art, it's an ambiguous art form in the world of the Supreme Court.

my credo is very short. Its first article is art - and its second is art - and its third is art!

This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother.

Art shouldn't be locked away in galleries and libraries and books. Art should be for everybody and not just art buffs, historians and so-called experts.

Art is one of the dirtiest words in our language; it's mucked up with all kinds of meanings. There's the art of plumbing; there's the art of almost anything that you can say.

You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.

Out of all the isms, movements and manifestos of the 20th century, it was the Dadaists who proved the most important - giving birth, not only to a lot of modern art, but also shaping comedy, music and political protest.

Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art. I buy art that I like. I buy it to show it off in exhibitions. Then, if I feel like it, I sell it and buy more art.

Thought is more important than art....To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.

The theatre, like the fresco, is art fitted to its place. And therefore it is above all else the human art, the living art.

My art and poetry is very political now. Because you've got to find that truth within you and express yourself. Somewhere out there, I know, there will be people who will listen.

Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Many novelists say, "I'm not a political novelist" - myself included. That's a standard, even a default position. Whereas that divide between art and politics simply isn't possible in many countries. In Hungary, you couldn't be a fiction writer and then, when asked about politics, put your hands up in the air and say "But I'm not a political novelist." If you're a Chinese novelist, a novelist in a country where censorship is such an issue, how do you claim that politics has nothing to do with your writing? It's in your writing, it's shaping your words.

The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art.

When I was just getting started making my own music, my dad said, "You should think about art, but also anti-art and non-art."

I think it's very important for Arts Ministers to purchase art, to attend art, to validate art.

Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art.

What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It's not what you see that is art; art is the gap.

To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.

No nation has ever produced great art that has not made a high art of cookery, because art appeals primarily to the senses.

Is photography an art? There is no point in trying to find out if it is an art. Art is old-fashioned. We need something else.

Here's the new art of the twenty-first century: the art of curating, the art of plucking all the good stuff from a superabundance of crap.

Art exists for the human species. I think that all of the people who love art, those who teach art, and all of you should burn with the obligation to save the world.

I think that the art of marketing, the art of promotion and the art of storytelling is definitely elevated and we have to get better every year.

Graphic novels and comic books, by and large, as you know, have cover art, and they have interior art. The interior art is never as detailed as the cover art.

Political events are part of everyday life [in Colombia], so art and politics came to me as a natural thing, something that has been very much present in my life from the start.

Study what thou art Whereof thou art a part What thou knowest of this art This is really what thou art. All that is without thee also is within.

Now the culture is made of old things, it's a collage. Art made out of art is not art. You're supposed to make art out of life.

Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life.

Surely the novel should be a form of art - but art was not enough. It must contain not only the perfection of art, but the imperfection of nature.

We...believe that art is religious, because it is one of man's highest aspirations. There is no such thing as pagan art, only good and bad art.

I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.

Unless you are a born connoisseur of art, you will not be able to judge by yourself why certain art is superior to other art.

There's no such thing as sculpture or art or anything, it's just a bit of - it's just words, you know, and actually saying everything is art. We're all art, art is just a tag, like a journalists' tag, but artists believe it.

Art Exists for the human species. I think that all of the people who love art, those who teach art, and all of you should burn with the obligation to save the world

When we even use the term 'specialized world,' we already have a problem! We're making art; they are making art... these worlds are not far apart from each other. For instance, pieces of art that hang on a wall can be seen in museums or can be used in a variety of commercial ways. That art is everywhere, so the message is that it's a part of everyday life.

Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.

What we need more of is slow art: art that holds time as a vase holds water: art that grows out of modes of perception and making whose skill and doggedness make you think and feel; art that isn’t merely sensational, that doesn’t get its message across in ten seconds, that isn’t falsely iconic, that hooks onto something deep-running in our natures. In a word, art that is the very opposite of mass media.

Like art, political action gives shape and expression to the things we fear as well as to those we desire. It is a creative process, drawing on the power to imagine as well as to act.

I trust people who are violent about art, as long as they aren't closed-minded. But, unfortunately, most art blowhards are also art bigots.

With each change of definition in art, something considered non-art or bad art by a previous generation is suddenly acceptable.

I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express what we can't say in words.

I believe in political solutions to political problems. But man's primary problems aren't political; they're philosophical. Until humans can solve their philosophical problems, they're condemned to solve their political problems over and over and over again. It's a cruel, repetitious bore.

An art critic is someone who appreciates art, except for any particular piece of art.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

The voice of our age seems by no means favorable to art, at all events to that kind of art to which my inquiry is directed. The course of events has given a direction to the genius of the time that threatens to remove it continually further from the ideal of art. For art has to leave reality, it has to raise itself bodily above necessity and neediness; for art is the daughter of freedom, and it requires its prescriptions and rules to be furnished by the necessity of spirits and not by that of matter.

There is no line between fine art and illustration; there is no high or low art; there is only art, and it comes in many forms.

Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804)

Where Picasso paints cause, Repin paints effect. Repin predigests art for the spectator and provides a short cut to the pleasure of art that is necessarily difficult in genuine art. Repin, or kitsch, is synthetic art.

The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.

'The Art of the Brick' is an exhibition I've done where I've taken some works of art from art history and replicated them all out of Lego bricks.