Quotes About Art

Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding.

Art is the daughter of pleasure.

Surprise is key in all art.

Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure.

Art is the ability to separate the significant from the insignificant.

It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.

Dumbing down takes many forms: art that is good for you, museums that flatter you, universities that increase your self-esteem. Culture, after all, is really about you.

Picturesqueness is a lost art. We may expect at anytime to hear that a collar ad is blazing its electric lights atop of the largest pyramid.

I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there

The spontaneous is the most beautiful thing that can appear in a picture, but nothing in art appears less spontaneously than that.

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

You can't control what other people think about your art. Think about the part of yourself that you can control, which is your ability to be kind and loving and creative.

Artists everywhere steal mercilessly all the time and I think this is healthy.

Let us... leave art to the artists, and let us try to use the medium of photography to create photographs that can endure because of their photographic qualities.

I draw like other people bite their nails.

There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.

I am not so sure whether what we do now is art or something not quite art. If I call it art, it is because I wish to avoid the endless arguments some other name would bring forth.

All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone.

Drawing is the cornerstone of the graphic, plastic arts. Drawing is the coordination of line, tone, and color symbols into formations that express the artist's thought.

As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

The artist does not really create; he discovers.

If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.

I'm a black American playwright. I couldn't be anything else. I make my art out of black American culture; they're all cut out of the same cloth. That's who I am; that's who I write about.

Cricket is battle and service and sport and art.