Quotes About Art

The most immoral and disgraceful and dangerous thing that anybody can do in the arts is knowingly to feed back to the public its own ignorance and cheap tastes.

I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars and that's a luxury I cannot afford.

All that the world most needs today, is combined in the most seductive manner in his art, — the three great stimulants of exhausted people: brutality, artificiality and innocence (idiocy).

The pride of the artisan in his art and its uses is pride in himself...It is in his skill and ability to make things as he wishes them to be that he rejoices.

Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.

It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes.

Art is craft, not inspiration.

In order to create art today, you have to compromise your art somewhat and be a businessman.

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to.

"A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist."

A garden is a kinetic work of art, not an object but a process, open-ended, biodegradable, nurturant, like all women's artistry. A garden is the best alternative therapy.

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.

I don't do abstract art because I don't find it as interesting as I do subjects and depictions.

MFA programs are to the world of art what gentrification is to your neighborhood.

Often Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

The purpose of art is to bring people into presence.

Making art in America is about saving one's soul.

Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it is not art.

One has complexes. One has the art complex. One goes to the School of Fine Arts and catches the complexes.