Quotes About Art

All art needs this visible world and will always need it. Quite simply because, being accessible to all, it is the key to all other worlds.

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.

One might say that where Religion becomes artificial, it is reserved for Art to save the spirit of religion.

This everyday world affects the way art is created as much as it conditions its response.

In Spring! In the creation of art it must be as it is in Spring!

You're supposed to expand your mind to fit the art, you're not supposed to chop the art down to fit your mind.

Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water.

Art has to be severe. It cannot be commercial. It cannot be for the producer or even for the public. It has to be for oneself.

Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.

Time is the great art of man.

The art of cooking is among the most intimate things that we can do for another.

I became an animal painter because I loved to move among animals. I would study an animal and draw it in the position it took, and when it changed to another position I would draw that.

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

Art is a way of expression that has to be understood by everyone, everywhere.

I noticed that the large windows between the paintings [in the Musee d'Art Moderne] interested me more than the art exhibited. From then on, painting as I had known it was finished for me.

I have discovered the dance. I have discovered the art which has been lost for two thousand years

Art itself has become an extraordinary thing - the activity of peculiar people - people who become more and more peculiar as their activity becomes more and more extraordinary.

Art is a means to function thoroughly and passionately in a world that has a lot more to it than paint.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Art exists because reality is neither real nor significant.

Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.

The films of Warhol, when they are about anything are about sucking people off. This can be high art, to people who are interested in sucking people off. But that will not liberate Black people.

I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this. But I have will to defend people - it can be all sorts of people.

I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.