Quotes About Art

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides.

Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.

I believe that every innovative thought comes from a creative mindset....A creative mindset is what drives our world, and art is the base of that.

In every art, beginners must start with models of those who have practiced the same art before them.

A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.

Art is supposed to spark conversation and make people think.

Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.

The public has a right to art ... Art is for everybody.

At first, art imitates life. Then life will imitate art.Then life will find its very existence from the arts.

Black art has always existed. It just hasn't been looked for in the right places.

Art is the soul of a people.

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.

The pure, frank sentiments we hold in our hearts are the only truthful sources of art.

The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring.

Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible.

Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons is the fact that films are a slightly corrupted artform. They fit this century - they combine Art and business!

The only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal.

To sculpt a head of hair with scissors is an art form. It's in pursuit of art.

The purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness than they would otherwise attain on their own.