Quotes About Art

What counts most is finding new ways to get the world down in paint on my own terms.

Art tells gorgeous lies that come true.

An arts degree is like a diploma in origami. And about as much use.

Mathematics is an art of human understanding.

We do not make art. We have unnamable motors and dangerous impulses that occupy our thoughts.

Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead. Reality has strangled invention.

Art is not emotion. Art is the medium in which emotion is expressed.

What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Art is an outsider, a gypsy over the face of the earth.

I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.

Drawing is deception.

Sight is a faculty; seeing is an art.

Light is impressionism.

All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.

To all appearances, the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing.

Tell everyone that your mistakes are art. You can get away with a lot that way.

The video camera dominates art. It's a bore, it makes everything look a bit the same. If you look at things with a pencil and paper in your hand, you are going to see far more.

Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering.

Playwriting is an oral art; it's not an art of a writer expecting to be read but a writer expecting to be heard.

Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.

Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art.

Art persists, it timelessly continues.