Quotes About Art

Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.

Cutting straight into color reminds me of the direct carving of the sculptor.

The painting is finished when the idea has disappeared.

I paint what I think, not what I see.

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people.

At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution.

I had to face the possibility that the art of living in the way of Jesus was no longer carried on in a holistic way by any single tradition.

Teaching is a performance art.

Art shouldn't be locked away in galleries and libraries and books. Art should be for everybody and not just art buffs, historians and so-called experts.

Art is a bad word in Hollywood. You use art too many times and they show you the elevator and then your name is taken off the parking lot.

The connoisseur might be defined as a laconic art historian, and the art historian as a loquacious connoisseur.

The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.

Art comes after the fact, as a witness to certain things that have happened.

Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique.

The Taj Mahal appears like a perfect pearl on an azure ground. The effect is such I have never experienced from any work of art.

Art should never be sociological; it has got to be timeless. It's got to be your vision and how you can represent the world you see.

The cinema occupies an important place in the overall development of art and literature.

Abstract art was the quivalent of poetic expression; I didn't need to use words,but colors and lines. I didn't need to belong to a language-oriented culture but to an open form of expression.

In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.

Sculpture is an art of the open air... I would rather have a piece of my sculpture put in a landscape, almost any landscape, than in, or on, the most beautiful building I know.

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.