Quotes About Perspective

There is no best anything in art.

As art reveals the artist more than the world, so you see yourself and what you are not in the mirror of another culture.

There are many, many art worlds. Art contains multitudes.

Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isn't any good. But everyone has a different opinion about which 85 percent is bad. That in turn creates fantastically unstable interplay and argument.

I don't want to hear at all what the artist thinks about his art. And I'm not writing for the artist. I'm writing for the reader, and I want to tell the reader what I think.

In the arts there are many right answers.

There's art that I think is pretty silly, but it doesn't get under my skin like it used to.

What one person might see as violent, someone else may see as beautiful. Maybe even art.

A diverse and lively collection, the highest art of the interview.

Everyone should be able to make art about ideas without getting cornered into self-art.

I think music can definitely be art; I also think music can be crap and not be art.

Art curates compassion. Art to me breaks down walls and allows us to step into somebody else's shoes.

Movies are art and the spirit of the movie depends on the creators.

Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.

Comedy is a noble art.

Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock; but its ultimate function is to ennoble.

You're laughing at everything that's bringing me down.

In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them.

Even though I loved to write, I never liked English lit. class very much. I think it ruins books when you dissect them too much. I liked my art classes best.

Creative vision creates art" - he motioned around the gallery - "that shows the rest of the world a new angle. That's beautiful thing." "Or some sort of madness", she said.

I have a healthy view of what one can do with art.

My brothers are both 6 ft. 5 in., and if you have younger brothers who are bigger than you then you have to learn the ancient martial art of sarcasm.

You can turn something into art just because of the way you tell people to look at it.

There's that saying, "I don't know art, but I know what I like." The inverse is kind of true. I know art, but I don't know what I like. You get so immersed in it that nothing appeals to you.