Top 1200 Visual Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

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

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

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?

Survival is important, art is secondary. If you aren't alive, how can you create art?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mime is an art beyond words. It is the art of the essential. And you cannot lie. You have to show the truth.

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

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

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

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

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

All art (after Duchamp) is conceptual (in nature) because art only exists conceptually.

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

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

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is black charcoal crushing white paper.

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

It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.

Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art's form.

In Japan, you can learn how to make a bunch of flowers. This is an art. Tea ceremony, it's an art.

Movies are immortal art - the first new art since Greek drama.

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

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

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

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

When you're so drawn to art, to making pictures and looking at art, it's really all you want to think about.

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

when you are dealing with art, any kind of art, your pleasure in making it is what matters most.

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

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

Too much art was no art at all. Like candy instead of bread!

I don't believe that art is just for entertainment. I want to create art that is meaningful in some way.

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

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

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

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

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.