Quotes About Art

I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in that direction. Why can't we have advertisements with beautiful words and beautiful images?

My greatest aim has been to advance the art of photography and to make it what I think I have, a great and truthful medium of history.

Do not set out to make Mexican art, or American, Chinese, or Russian art. Think in terms of universality.

Painting is the art of hollowing a surface.

Fashion is above all an art of change.

I personally always hated Pop art.

The art of avoiding extremes is an art that is drawn on the canvas of maturity and painted with the abstract strokes of many experiences.

In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.

...If our houses, or clothes, our household furniture and utensils are not works of art, they are either wretched makeshifts, or, what is worse, degrading shams of better things.

The culture of any country is gauged first by its progress in art.

We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.

Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.

I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.

I live through risk. Without risk there is no art. You should always be on the edge of a cliff about to fall down and break your neck.

I'm not "filled with my art". I ain't got no art. I've got only a kind of craftsman's skill, and make stories as I make biscuits or embroider underwear or wrap up packages.

A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.

The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.

If i were asked to say what is at once the most important production of Art and the thing most to be longed for, I should answer, A beautiful House.

To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.

There's nothing as human as hunger. There's no creation without talent, I give you that, but talent is cheap. Talent goes begging. Hunger is the piston of art.

Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.