Quotes About Art

For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.

Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

Concision in art is a necessity and an elegance. The verbose painter bores: who will get rid of all these trimmings?

No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.

I honestly believe students of painting in the next century will laugh at the abstract art movement. They will marvel at such a drawn-out regression in the plastic arts.

An art critic is someone who appreciates art, except for any particular piece of art.

Each body has its art.

I want to write poems that are natural, luminous, deep, spare. I dream of an art so transparent that you can look through and see the world.

The artist makes art not to save mankind but to save himself. Every benevolent comment by an artist is a fog to cover his tracks, the bloody trail of his assault against reality and others.

The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypotheses, is like the art of deciphering, in which an ingenious conjecture often greatly shortens the road.

I think a big problem with art school is that it makes people feel like they have to be interested in everything that's of high quality.

I began to exercise a lot of cinematic muscle with the precepts I had learned in the New York art world. Film was intriguing. I began to think of art as elitist, whereas film was not.

The only thing that is not art is inattention

The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art.

The dichotomy between art and industry is totally dysfunctional in terms of film.

The current fad in art, is to shock people or appear 'different'... My goal is to help people find the rays of sunshine in an often dark world.

I do not like to be a prophet. I like better to paint than to predict what the next painters will do. Though I have a feeling that consideration of order is very much in the air.

Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it.

Art without technique is invertebrate, shapeless, characterless.

Songwriting is a very frustrating art form. You have to get on tape exactly what's playing inside your head