Quotes About Art

The camera for an artist is just another tool. It is no more mechanical than a violin if you analyze it. Beyond the rudiments, it is up to the artist to create art, not the camera.

Art is either revolution or plagiarism

I feel like skateboarding is as much of a sport as a lifestyle, and an art form, so there's so much that that transcends in terms of music, fashion, and entertainment.

Nothing is a mistake. There's no win and no fail. There's only make.

Camouflage is the most interesting of all the arts.

I can't understand why most people believe in medicine and don't believe in art, without questioning either.

In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.

There must be something about art... almost all cultures have done art. It's a refining of the senses, which are there to keep us alive. As far as we know, no other animals do that.

Obviously a drawing of a person is not a real person, but a drawing of a line is a real line.

I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.

I don't think there is such a thing as being too raunchy when it comes to the art form of burlesque.

The art of conducting consists in knowing when to stop conducting to let the orchestra play.

Theater, art, literature, cinema, press, posters, and window displays must be cleansed of all manifestations of our rotting world and placed in the service of a moral, political, and cultural idea.

A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.

If I paint like a barbarian, it's because we live in a barbarous age

Strong and convincing art has never arisen from theories.

Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.

Many are willing to suffer for their art. Few are willing to learn to draw.

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.

Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.

The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows it to realize its supreme purpose through him.

If painting is no longer needed, it seems a pity that some of us are born into the world with such a passion for line and color.

The definition of salesmanship is the gentle art of letting the customer have it your way.