Quotes About Art

Photography is the easiest art, which perhaps makes it the hardest.

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier.

Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.

Simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

Thank you for the tragedy. I need it for my art.

It is not enough to deface the Mona Lisa because that does not kill the Mona Lisa. All art of the past must be destroyed.

Rule of art: Cant kills creativity!

The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.

Photography has every right and every merit to claim our attention as the art of our age.

Organized perception is what art is all about.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.

New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas.

Originally, I didn't want to say too much about the art.

I'm painting an idea not an ideal. Basically I'm trying to paint a structured painting full of controlled, and therefore potent, emotion.

It's seldom you make a great picture. you have to milk the cow quite a lot to get plenty of milk to make a little cheese.

The artist is the person who makes life more interesting or beautiful, more understandable or mysterious, or probably, in the best sense, more wonderful.

What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.

When it comes to words I have a uniqueness that I find almost impossible in art – and it's my words that actually make my art quite unique.

They'll sell you thousands of greens. Veronese green and emerald green and cadmium green and any sort of green you like; but that particular green, never.

Some people's photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing it already.

Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.