Quotes About Art

The most important thing in art is taste.

Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.

I think all art is about control, the encounter between control and uncontrollable.

All creation is in the art of seeing.

My art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others.

I don't say everything, but I paint everything.

I don't believe that art makes people violent in any way. I don't. But I do believe art can show people how to be violent and that's much more dangerous in a way.

The art of persuasion. The actor persuades himself, first, and through himself, the audience.

I honestly don't know how you live without having a cat inside your house. It's like having a little living piece of art that is also very warm and soft.

Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.

Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

I do not claim to have perfected an art but to have commenced one, the limits of which it is not possible at present exactly to ascertain.

The world is beautiful but not sayable. That's why we need art.

What still concerns me the most is: am I on the right track, am I making progress, am I making mistakes in art?

The art we need is the art of bearing the unbearable.

Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross

Art is to look at not to criticize.

Bad critics judge a work of art by comparing it to pre-existing theories. They always go wrong when confronted with a masterpiece because masterpieces make their own rules.

Through play, we renew contact with childhood – My art is childlike.

Our aim is to take our art to the world and make people understand what it is to move.

he line has almost become a work of art in itself; one can not play with it when the representation of objects perceived was all-important.

Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness.

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism.