Quotes About Art

Only the work of art itself can raise the standard of taste.

If you work at rap and look at it as an art, the money will come. But if you try to get the money, it'll just always be shallow.

Black painters have done all kinds of work. It's the treatment of forms they engage in-that's what determines the value of the work, not whether you call them a black artist or not.

Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work.

My work is a game, a very serious game.

Poetry is subconscious conversation, it is as much the work of those who understand it and those who make it.

Public art is ephemeral by nature. Google 's new project not only catalogs an artist's work but archives it and allows people to see the art long after it has disappeared.

A portrait, to be a work of art, neither must nor may resemble the sitter... one must paint its atmosphere.

Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it.

Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness.

Every great work of art ... is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life.

Only art is capable of dismantling the repressive effects of a senile social system that continues to totter along the deathline: to dismantle in order to build A SOCIAL ORGANISM AS A WORK OF ART.

We believe that the elements in the chemical formula of our creative work, problem, invention, and art, correspond to the challenges of our age.

Only dull and impotent artists screen their work with sincerity. In art there is need for truth, not sincerity.

I like making work in my studio day in and day out, but I'm not so interested in the business side

The artist need not know very much, best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.

My sculpture can last for days or a few seconds - what is important to me is the experience of making. I leave all my work outside and often return to watch it decay.

You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist.

The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.

A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already

I start a picture and I finish it. I don't think about art while I work. I try to think about life.

A good many people think as I do. If they like my work they are creative . . . or they are crazy.

I often think that presentations are more difficult than the work itself.

I do hope I play out the contradictions that I feel, all the anxieties and dilemmas. If they're there in the work, then that's brilliant.