Top 1200 Visual Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

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

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

Beauty is a type of art everyone is trying to perfect, but no one realizes it's abstract 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've always written songs with a visual counterpart in my mind that no one else can see.

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

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.

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

My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

I got really into art at school and then went onto art college in California.

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.

I feel that performing is its own art form, and recording is its own art form, and writing is its own art form, and that they all can happen simultaneously but at different paces.

For thousands of years, we've insisted that art can make us better people. Unless a brief can be fashioned that, by its very nature, art appeals only to the best in people and never the darkness, which defies both logic and intuition, then we have to acknowledge that art can make some of us worse.

I think any opportunity you can to employ some visual technique, go for it.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

For the first time in six or seven thousand years, many people of goodwill find themselves confused about art. They want to enjoy it because enjoying art is something they expect of themselves as civilized persons, but they're unsure how to do so. They aren't even sure which of the visible objects are art and which are furniture, clothes, hors d'oeuvres, or construction rubble, and whether a pile of dead and decomposing rats is deliberate art or just another pile of decomposing rats.

I'm really into the recycling of art. That one piece of art inspires another piece of art, which inspires another piece of art. I really like that idea.

I believe it is no wrong Observation, that Persons of Genius, and those who are most capable of Art, are always fond of Nature, as such are chiefly sensible, that all Art consists in the Imitation and Study of Nature. On the contrary, People of the common Level of Understanding are principally delighted with the Little Niceties and Fantastical Operations of Art, and constantly think that finest which is least Natural.

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

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

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

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.

I come from a family that does not believe in art to this day. They think art is vanity.

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

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

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

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

It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something.

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.

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

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.

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