Quotes About Art

Should # graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that

To awaken human emotion is the highest level of art.

I was born into a world of art. I always thought that in life, you breathe, you eat, you go to sleep and you draw.

Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake.

A painting which does not take its inspiration from the heart is nothing more than futile juggling.

How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn't pull the trigger?

There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.

The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which hs to be acquired with difficulty.

In art, everything is particular. The more particular and the more intimate you get, the more you can give in the piece.

I draw manga, therefore I am!

Outside is the world; it's there. Pop Art looks out into the world.

Art has no purpose. It exists for its own sake.

Fashion goes with the feeling of the moment. It's related to movies, to art, to young people's taste.

For art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group.

O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?

Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, the beautiful in art.

Every race, every art has its hypocrisy. The world is fed with a little truth and many lies.

The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.

Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself.

Art must take to the road and risk all for the glory of adventure.

All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.

Art respects the masses, by standing up to them for what they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state.