Quotes About Art

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.

If it were not for the great variability among individuals, medicine might as well be a science, not an art.

Art cannot be used to show the validity of Christianity; it should rather be the reverse.

Not everything you do is going to be a masterpiece, but you get art there and you try and sometimes it really happens. The other times you're just stretching your soul.

Even in art, there is no light without shadows, and no shadows are cast without some light. Even the shadow of Adolf Hitler is accompanied by some light.

All painting - the painting of the past as well as of the present - shows us that its essential plastic means were only line and color.

My art is about paying attention - about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art.

An art book is a museum without walls.

When I met Steve Kaufman, I thought he was Gene Simmons, but what an artist talent he is. He will be an art force in the art world to deal with.

And no book, and possibly no painting, when it is finished, is ever exactly like the first dream of it.

It's a new art form, showing people how little we care.

An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.

Imitation is not inspiration, and inspiration only can give birth to a work of art. The least of man's original emanation is better than the best of borrowed thought.

Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.

Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.

The work of art is a stuffed crocodile.

The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To use the language that we all use and to make amazing things occur.

Collage is the twentieth century's greatest innovation

The film is the first art form capable of demonstrating how matter plays tricks on man.

In art, as in science, reductionism does not trivialize our perception - of color, light, and perspective - but allows us to see each of these components in a new way.

Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?

Mine was not pop art. I maybe started with a subject, but I changed the subject.

Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings.

It was a revelation for me, in a practical sense, that you could write in an African language and still reach an audience beyond that language through the art of translation.