Quotes About Relevance

Nothing in this world is useless in the eyes of God.

There is nothing worse than the feeling that no one cares whether we exist or not, that no one is interested in what we have to say about life, and that the world can continue turning without our awkward presence.

The number of arguments is unimportant unless some of them are correct.

You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.

Photography has every right and every merit to claim our attention as the art of our age.

I see things like they've never been seen before. Art is an accurate statement of the time in which it is made.

The idea is more important than the object.

An arts degree is like a diploma in origami. And about as much use.

I think you can be contemporary without taking your clothes off.

Art is the ability to separate the significant from the insignificant.

A playwright... is... the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about.

To an art historian a Giotto is a 14th Century painting. To an artist it was painted yesterday. We free ourselves from the past when we see it freshly.

No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation.

People regard art too highly, and history not enough

An abstract painting need in 50 years by no means look "abstract" any longer.

There's nothing more tragic than artists from the 70s still doing art from the 70s.

As my uncle always says, 'If your vibe outweighs your substance, you're destined to be a novelty.' I think that is true in all art.

Contrary to popular opinion, things don't go stale particularly fast in the art world.

Art is long, and critics are the insects of a day.

Art you can flush down the loo means nothing to me, even were the loo to be selected by Marcel Duchamp

I don't think hip-hop is a dying art form. I think it's impossible for hip-hop to be a dying art form.

Sinclair Lewis may be ripe for a revival; his books raise several interesting issues of art and fashion.

Art of course survives on the walls of private dwellings and corporate offices, but it 'dies' in the sense of losing its public, community-gathering, world-historical significance.

It is one of the ironies of biographical art that some details are more relevant than others, and many details have no relevance at all.