Quotes About Art

Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth.

I try to make images that have the immediate presence we take for granted in objects - a chair, a shoe, a book, a Judd - and compose them like sentences.

If you dance with your heart, your body will follow.

Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.

Art only begins where Imitation ends.

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Art is a magic which makes the hours melt away and even days dissolve into seconds

Art is about trying to find the good in people, and making the world a more compassionate place.

Most people don't do something seminal. I've done it twice: with my tent and my bed. Picasso did it with Cubism.

The works of 'abstract' art are subtle creations of order out of simple contrasting elements.

Perfume is the art that makes memory speak

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

One might not think of light as a matter of fact, but I do. And it is, as I said, as plain and open and direct an art as you will ever find.

The sky is the ultimate art gallery just above us.

Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art - the art of words.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all!

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

Of all the wonders that the world had to offer, only art promised immortality.

Magick is the art of causing changes in consciousness to occur in accordance with the will.

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.

We speak of concrete and not abstract painting because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a color, a surface.

Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

I totally believe that art is an open dialogue and that it is not logical. It does not always make sense.

The greatest art in the world is the art of storytelling.