Quotes About Art

In the end nobody knows how it's done — how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are just tools. Understanding a tool doesn't explain the magic of creation. Nothing can.

No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms with the problem of cubism.

The camera can photograph thought. It's better than a paragraph of sweet polemic.

Where there is no style, there is no slave. Martial Arts mean honestly expressing yourself. No style. No slave.

You say I sucked at the Oscars. I was a genius at the Oscars. That was experimental tuxedo sleep art.

Right now I am preparing for another art exhibit in November in Palm Desert.

Donkey Kong Country proves that players will put up with mediocre gameplay as long as the art is good.

Martial arts, like any art, is an unrestricted athletic expression of an individual soul.

The art of art... is simplicity.

It's as interesting and as difficult to say a thing well as to paint it. There is the art of lines and colours, but the art of words exists too, and will never be less important.

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.

Screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art.

I see things like they've never been seen before. Art is an accurate statement of the time in which it is made.

If I didn't think what I was doing had something to do with enlarging the boundaries of art, I wouldn't go on doing it.

I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.

Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

Art addresses itself to the mind, and not to the eyes. It has always been considered in this way by primitive peoples, and they are right.

I don't listen to punk any more, unless it's right before I play. Not that I don't like it, it's nostalgic. But, it's for kids and it should be it's not art, it's expression.

All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

Change art to include yourself.

I am for the art of underwear and the art of taxicabs. I am for the art of ice cream cones dropped on concrete.

Everywhere in the modern world there is neglect, the need to be recognized, which is not satisfied. Art is a way of recognizing oneself, which is why it will always be modern.

Music is not written in red, white and blue. It is written in the heart's blood of the composer.