Quotes About Art

You don't do art for any other reason than to help your soul grow.

A chair is not just a product of decorative art in a space, it is a form and a space in itself

It doesn't matter one damn bit whether fashion is art or not. You don't question whether an incredible chef is an artist or not-his cakes are delicious and that's all that matters.

I like natural disasters and I think that they may be the highest form of art possible to experience

In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are ... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.

I used language because I wanted to offer content that people - not necessarily art people - could understand.

Art must be unaesthetic in the extreme, useless and impossible to justify.

Art is not democratic. It is not for the people.

Believe it or not, I can actually draw.

Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects. But sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things.

Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.

Other than conversation, no other art form can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction like Jazz.

Art was not created as a way to riches. Strive to become a true artist; all else will take care of itself.

To engage with art, we have to be willing to be wrong, venture outside our psychic comfort zones, suspend disbelief, and remember that art explores and alters consciousness simultaneously.

Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly done, but as a social manifestation, the critical eye becomes clairvoyant.

Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.

We were told, quite seriously, that there never would be a Canadian art because we had no art tradition.

As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

The work is what it is and hopefully it's seen as feminist work, or feminist-advised work, but I'm not going to go around espousing theoretical bullshit about feminist stuff.

The more horrible this world (as today, for instance), the more abstract our art, whereas a happy world brings forth an art of the here and now.

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.

All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.