Quotes About Art

The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing.

The most pleasurable thing in the world, for me, is to see something and then translate how I see it.

Classical ballet will never die.

Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.

Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.

Art made by the people for the people, as a joy to the maker and the user.

It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.

I think the art world... is a very small pond, and it's a very inbred pond. They rely on information from an elect elite sect of galleries, primarily in New York.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

My contribution to the world is my ability to draw. I will draw as much as I can for as many people as I can for as long as I can.

For me it's very important to turn Kiev into one of the main centers of contemporary art in the world. There is New York. There's London. And there will be Kiev. Everyone will come and say, 'Wow!

Fashion is not art. The aims of fashion and art are different and there is no need to compare them.

The designer of today re-establishes the long-lost contact between art and the public, between living people and art as a living thing.

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.

Without atmosphere a painting is nothing.

Salesmanship, too, is an art; the perfection of its technique requires study and practice.

With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery.

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

If you subtracted all of the great artists who never drank, who never went to excess, you wouldn't have any more art left. What kind of poem are you gonna get out of a glass of iced tea?

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

Art cannot be criticized because every mistake is a new creation

However fake the subject, once photographed, it's as good as real.