Quotes About Art

It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.

By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.

The art world is now a slave of mass culture. We have a sound-bite culture and so we have sound-bite art. You look at it, you get it - it's as immediate and as superficial as that.

Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.

It's hard to separate art from artists so transgender musicians will never be mainstream until transpeople are looked at as notable as maybe redheads.

Creativity is the art of concealing your sources.

The 1,000 Buddha, to me, is almost like a contemporary art piece.

Kitsch is deep in its superficiality. Art is superficially deep.

I do dream about art, and images come to me in dreams. I am definitely hoping to be in touch with my subconscious. I expect a call any minute.

Being an artist and having to be responsible for the art that you make is really quite challenging, and as you get older it becomes more and more difficult.

It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.

PROMOTE A REVOLUTIONARY FLOOD AND TIDE IN ART. Promote living art, anti-art, promote NON ART REALITY to be fully grasped by all peoples, not only critics, dilettantes and professionals.

On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.

Art made tongue-tied by authority.

One's art is just one's effort to wed oneself to the universe, to unify oneself through union.

Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas, the class struggle.

I get my inspiration from books, pictures, art. I might find a vintage scarf and say, "I think this should be our color palette."

I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on. At the end of the day, people are more important than paintings.

The language of art is celestial in origin and can only be understood by the chosen.

I take the horsemanship very seriously and I treat it with the same integrity that one would any of the fine arts.

The invention of photography destroyed the canons of representational, imitative art.

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Remember, you are expressing the techniques and not doing the techniques.

Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't.