Quotes About Art

Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them.

Painting puts me into an alpha state. It's a private event. I make all the decisions in the process and never have to deal with the outside world.

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.

Making something good and saying something brilliant are not two things. When you make your own statement, there is a higher energy level, and you do better painting.

We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. Our obligation is to make money.

I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.

Making records is fun. It's not some big statement. You're allowed to make mistakes.

Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it.

The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the producer.

A movie is really provocation. It's not a message, it's not a statement.

I've never made any money off of any of my films. Statement of fact. So without commercial work, I would be in big trouble.

I like dressing how I like to dress, and I look like a little art statement.

I think if you say that art and politics, or religion and politics, mustn't mix, don't mix, that is itself a political statement. Even if you are writing a 19th-century novel where the money comes from a plantation in the Caribbean and you don't talk about that, that itself is a political thing.

Making art in America is sort of a political statement in and of itself. It's not the best environment for that sometimes.

I always loved art shows at schools. My friends with kids would go, and I would go with them. It's some of my favorite art... It's more about creativity than the grand statement of an agenda.

Painting does more than just point to things. The very act of pointing is a value statement.

I sing in Arabic as a statement. It's art, and it's a challenge.

With a lot of songs, songs that don't make a good statement, I forget the words.

Every time we get in drag and bat an eyelash, it is a political statement.

Baby Got Back' was already a reflection of what was going on. I didn't see it as this gigantic political statement.

My point is, to emulate dead animals and their parts as decoration is pretty disgusting, and as a design statement, it also fills me with ennui.

My work isn't overtly political, although it is sometimes painted in places where I don't have permission to paint, so that could be construed as a political statement.

I see clothes as an art form, and also a statement: no matter how vociferously people protest that they don't care what they wear, they sort of have to.

Most artists say that they want to make the ultimate statement. I certainly do, but I don't mind people seeing all of the things that I would consider imperfections, because, quite honestly, I feel like they're better than anything else they're gonna hear.