Top 1200 Visual Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.

Somewhere a portion of contemporary art has to exist as an example of what the art and its context were meant to be.

This industry [photography], by invading the territories of art, has become art's most mortal enemy.

The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you.

We should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art.

Polling is an art as well as a science, and the art of crafting good questions is still vital.

A city's art must give the impression that art is as indispensable a thing as water, or food.

Sometimes we look at a work of art and we immediately think that it is German art, but with some we don't, it's not so obvious.

Innovation and thoughtful visual storytelling are deeply woven into the fabric of Getty Images.

Think of Instagram. Journalism will continue to exist, but communication is now visual.

When demagogues and dictators ban art, this is the reason: art is the great solvent of obedient fundamentalism.

I really believe in not compromising your art. I feel like I've never compromised my art.

The art of healing, the art of ecstasy, the art of God-consciousness has millions of names in mystic terms. It has to do with rhythm and reality. When the body is in rhythm, there is ease. When the body, or any part of the body goes out of rhythm, there is dis-ease.

Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions.

I have an unusual type of thinking. I have no visual memory whatsoever. Everything is conceptual to me.

My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater.

Concrete, Steel & Paint portrays the core values of restorative justice-respect, responsibility and relationships-expressed through art. it is art that involves victims, offenders and communities in a dialogue that is sometimes difficult and painful, sometimes reconciling, but always engaging. As one prisoner says in the film, 'We have come together collectively through art.' It will be a great discussion tool for college classes, community groups and others interested in issues of justice, community-building, conflict resolution and socially-engaged art.

The public needs art, and it is the responsibility of a ’self-proclaimed artist’ to realize the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for the few and ignore the masses. … I am interested in making art to be experienced and explored by as many individuals as possible with as many different individual ideas about the given piece with no final meaning attached. The viewer creates the reality, the meaning, the conception of the piece. I am merely a middleman trying to bring ideas together.

Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.

Music is an art form too. Sometimes other forms of art can be inspiring to the musician.

I've had to sell a lot of art, which I've hated to do because I really love the art I have.

I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.

Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away.

When I went to college, and I went to art school, I started to realize that Warhol was cool and that pop art was fun.

Art in the age of the digital image is completely different from experiencing art in physical form.

Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.

Art solves nothing, either for the artist himself or for those who receive his art.

There can be no good art that is international. Art to be vigorous and gesund must use the material at hand.

To translate poetry, one has to possess some art, at the very least the art of stylistic re-embodiment.

I started doing visual effects for many years, and after that, I became an actor.

To make people free is the aim of art, therefore art for me is the science of freedom.

I consider chess an art, and accept all those responsibilities which art places upon its devotees.

The art and architecture of the past that we know is that which remains. The best is that which remains where it was painted, placed or built. Most of the art of the past that could be moved was taken by conquerors. Almost all recent art is conquered as soon as it's made, since it's first shown for sale and once sold is exhibited as foreign in the alien museums. The public has no idea of art other than that it is something portable that can be bought. There is no constructive effort; there is no cooperative effort. This situation is primitive in relation to a few earlier and better times.

You can't really have art without having a sense of community as art is for others to enjoy as well.

Part of the strength of Pollock and Rothko's art, in fact, is this doubt as to whether art may be there at all.

Directing is about as visual as I get and I will leave artmaking to the rest of the family.

Strictly speaking, there are no holidays for art; art pursues you everywhere, and that's just fine with the artist.

The art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its potency.

As both a fine artist and a graphic designer, I specialize in the visual presentation of words.

Art is consumed in so many different ways. You could say people don't stop to appreciate art. On the other hand, people can consume art more quickly. Twitter, videos posted online - how do you utilize that? How do you identify yourself as an individual when you're sitting at this massive dinner table of the world with everyone on, from Kansas to Dubai?

80 percent of learning is visual, so children who can't afford vision correction are at such a disadvantage.

Color is everything. It's another piece of the visual language to express what you're trying to say.

I'm not a visual guy. I'm audio. I'm a musician. I know what I do. I play guitar, and in my category I'm doing O.K.

I was much more interested in literature than I was in art. I just got into art by mistake.

Art is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art.

Great art always transcends its culture, while lesser art merely reflects it.

I felt film is art and there are people that constructed that art - and that made me want to be a filmmaker.

Art is not and never has been subordinate to moral values. Moral values are social values; aesthetic values are human values. Morality seeks to restrain the feelings; art seeks to define them by externalizing them, by giving them significant form. Morality has only one aim - the ideal good; art has quite another aim - the objective truth... art never changes.

Visual tonics such as 'timed creativity' need to be introduced to refresh and refurbish the muse.

My art is applied to another art which is cinema, that makes my life much easier.

Hypotyposis is the rhetorical effect by which words succeed in rendering a visual scene.

Before the Conquest all art was of the people, and popular art has never ceased to exist in Mexico. The art called popular is fugitive in character, with less of the impersonal and intellectual characteristics of the schools. It is the work of talent nourished by personal experience and that of the community - rather than being taken from the experiences of painters in other times and other cultures.

Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

In visual futurism, the line between total fantasy and futuristic is a thread of reality.

Good art doesn't really have an expiration date on it. That's something to be happy about, if you're making art.

Whatever else art is good for, its chief effectiveness lies in propagating more art.

Kids are very visual, and they might not eat a food just because of its colour.

Some teams hold a little more than others. It's an art, but it's not an art I appreciate.

If the reader doesn't care or relate to the characters, all that visual spectacle is pretty but feels empty.