Quotes About Art

If you are only moved by color relationships, you are missing the point. I am interested in expressing the big emotions - tragedy, ecstasy, doom.

Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.

The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

My art is the way I reestablish the bonds that tie me to the universe.

The purpose of truly transcendent art is to express something you are not yet, but something that you can become.

I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget.

The only albatross is the hurt you divine from what people say about your art

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

In Europe they look upon jazz as art. In America it's a diversion. Somebody opens a restaurant and installs another band off to the side. People don't listen.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.

Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.

abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality.

The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but rather the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.

Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.

Art has a will of its own. It has nothing to do with the taste of the moment or what's expected of you. That's a formula for dead art, or fashionable art.

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit.

Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place.

Art is our weapon. Culture is a form of resistance.

It would have to be connected with performance art somehow, either in the front of the house or the back. I was myopic about this from fourth grade on

I don't get many hecklers now but answering them is an art form in itself.

A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.