Quotes About Art

It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.

Being an artist for my well being and as a living, I live in a place of observance and interest in what I consider to be the most relevant questions.

Well, I think there are artists who are more or less contemporary with Hopper who are more relevant.

It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.

Artists always try to make something that is going to be relevant and up-to-the-minute.

When art works travel from place to place, what you have is the opportunity to engage with the intellect of another person who has made a thing that should have enough information in it in the way it's constructed to start thinking about why that picture got made - not why it is relevant to you.

My intention is to make sure that the new work being created for the ballet world is relevant.

I believe that art can make relevant and progressive contributions to culture and society.

I produce so little that the works have to be editioned. Otherwise, I don't survive. Also, editioning is relevant for communication. If you make three new works, it means that nine objects are available. Three people talking about your work is fine, but nine makes a difference.

I'd say dance is as relevant to us as, say, pop. It's as relevant as electronica, as relevant as ambient or experimental music. I wouldn't say it's something we spend more time on than any other genre.

My parents probably were delighted when I chose acting, because if there is one job in the world that is less financially reliable than acting, it is art.

Think of an abstract painting as very, very low relief - a thing, not a picture.

Being able to express myself gave me a sense of relief.

I relieved my loneliness with movies and books, and I had a strong desire to express what I felt through acting.

Fashion is almost like a religion, for me at least.

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

At the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first 'feeling' for a person, or for art, or for religion, I was affectionate, good, and even pious: by that I mean that under the influence of my mother, I was devoted to the Child Jesus.

India is the country which makes the maximum number of movies. Cinema is one of our religions.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

None of my paintings I would say are religious.

All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing.

And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.

In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it's a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins.

There are very religious people who write comics and who love comics.