Quotes About Art

Hip-hop is the last true folk art.

I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn, and one in which to practice his art.

Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.

The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

Like the sundial, my paint box counts no hours but sunny ones.

If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art.

Buying art is not understanding art.

If I had to choose a single destination where I'd be held captive for the rest of my time in New York, I'd choose the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.

Nursing encompasses an art, a humanistic orientation, a feeling for the value of the individual, and an intuitive sense of ethics, and of the appropriateness of action taken.

Art is not escape, but a way of finding order in chaos, a way of confronting life.

Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to make that cheque, nobody putting art in their albums any more.

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

My whole theory about art is the disparity that exists between form, masses and movement.

I think that the art of marketing, the art of promotion and the art of storytelling is definitely elevated and we have to get better every year.

I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I don't do it. I'm not crazy about categories.

I don't paint to live, I live to paint.

Art, in fact, can be nothing but violence, cruelty and injustice.

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

There's some people who are not understanding what Limp Bizkit is about. But, then again, who am I to tell people what they can use art for or how they can interpret it?

Coquetry is the art of successful deception.

My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.