Quotes About Art

Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.

The great artists do not seek their forms in the midst of the past, but take the deepest soundings they can of the genuine, profoundest of their age.

In past times when one lived in contact with nature, abstraction was easy; it was done unconsciously. Now in our denaturalized age abstraction becomes an effort.

Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age that we're living in.

It is so important for people at a young age to be invited to embrace classical music and opera.

Hey, even the Mona Lisa is falling apart.

Nations in their great ages have not been great in art or science, but in art and science.

In all ages, far back into prehistory, we find human beings have painted and adorned themselves.

Each age, each guilty age, builds high walls around its Versailles; and personally I hate those walls most when they are made by literature and art.

I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs.

At the age of 80, I'm becoming a visual artist. This could be my rebirth.

These landscapes of water and reflections have become an obsession. It's quite beyond my powers at my age, and yet I want to succeed in expressing what I feel.

Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age.

From the age of four, I loved ballet and tap. I was in the school band, the choir, and all my school plays.

It would be difficult, in this day and age, to fund art that made racial slurs.

I never tried to make a cartoon for a certain age bracket. I just tried to make entertaining pictures. That's why they still play and why they play so well in foreign countries.

Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.

I think that... the age of just slapping songs into movies, that's done.

Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery?

I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term.

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.

Be guided by feelings alone. Abandon yourself to your first impression. If you really have been touched, you will convey to others the sincerity of your emotion.

Color cannot stand alone.