Quotes About Art

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

Basketball isn't a game; It's an art form. You master the fundamentals so you can forget 'em, so you can improvise and just concentrate on what really matters: getting buckets.

When I know your soul, I will paint your eyes.

I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art.

Yes, ruling by fooling, is a great British art with great Irish fools to practice on.

The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

If wrestling can be considered an art form, then [Ric Flair] is using oils, and the many others merely water colors.

Posing is a performing art.

Anything can be art. Anything can be self-expression . Now you take the weapon and run with it.

My people will sleep for one hundred years, but when they awake, it will be the artists who give them their spirit back.

The arts, it has been said, cannot change the world, but they may change human beings who might change the world.

Glass is the most magical of all materials. It transmits light in a special way.

I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.

I would like to paint the way a bird sings.

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish... but that's only if it's done properly.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

If words were adequate to describe fully what the dance can do, there would be no reason for all the mighty muscular effort, the discomfort, the sweat and the splendors of that art.

And it's possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of it for commerce.

I don't create blurs. Blurring is not the most important thing; nor is it an identity tag for my pictures.

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.

The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.