Quotes About Art

The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does.

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training a mere beginner.

The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.

The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space.

We were all miners in our family. My father was a miner. My mother is a miner. These are miner's hands, but we were all artists, I suppose, really. But I was the first one who had the urge to express myself on paper rather than at the coalface.

I adore tattoos. They're not painful; you just get an urge to swear a lot.

Every time I see a piano, I have this urge to play it.

Some amazing records have this power to leave you with inspiration; you're left with the urge to write something. And some records are totally overwhelming, because they are so good, they burn the bridges behind them.

The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.

If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.

If you cut a painter's hands off, he'd still feel the urge to pick up a brush.

The demons you have are what motivate you to make your art. This is what drives the detective, this is what drives the painter, this is what drives the writer: a conflicting urge to forget pain and at the same time remember it and fight for some kind of justice. I know these powerful things are inside of me and everyone in some way or another.

I have a little studio in Chinatown, and I sometimes go there and rearrange my brushes. But I would have to stop acting altogether in order to become a painter. At the moment, I'm still interested and active as an actor and director. Besides, I rather think acting and painting are all part of the same creative urge.

The art works of women, who are intelligent and creative, need to be showcased and understanding their thoughts through art can definitely urge us to support them better.

Art is one of those few legal monopolies. If you want to listen to Prince, Mick Jagger doesn't do. Nothing else in the world can satisfy that urge. It's not replaceable, it's not hot swappable. It's not a commodity.

'Station to Station' came out of a sense of urgency - a sense that culture, be it art, film or architecture, has become so compartmentalised. For this project, we wanted to break that and create a language that is more nomadic and less materialistic and really empowering for the creators and the audience.

I don't know how much I'm connected to the hip-hop scene, but I definitely lend from that urgency.

I think with any art making, there's a sense of urgency that you have for people to understand you.

I was always into poetry and writing. So the urgency of spoken word is something that really has always appealed to me.

I began as a naturalistic painter. Very quickly I felt the urgent need for a more concise form of expression and an economy of means. I never stopped progressing toward abstraction.

But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.

I am interested in seeing if you can create on film pieces that feel contemporary and urgent.

With just one polka dot, nothing can be achieved. In the universe, there is the sun, the moon, the earth, and hundreds of millions of stars. All of us live in the unfathomable mystery and infinitude of the universe. Pursuing 'philosophy of the universe' through art under such circumstances has led me to what I call 'stereotypical repetition.'