Quotes About Art

I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.

Art without color would lose much of its purpose.

Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.

I've always believed film is most close to music of all the other arts.

The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.

Art is based on order. The world is full of 'sloppy Bohemians' and their work betrays them.

The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

I don't want my work to be an exposure of my feelings.

The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.

Art hath an enemy called ignorance.

I had an art teacher who's the reason I got there in high school who encouraged me to go to Alabama. That's where she had gone and kept raving over their art department.

Art is visceral and vulgar - it's an eruption.

Lord, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low.

Art is the expression of those beauties and emotions that stir the human soul.

Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.

Art arises from the interaction of the mind and the heart.

I like druggy downtown kids who spray paint walls and trains. I like their lack of training, their primitive technique. I think it hurts you, when you stay too long in school.

To think about "oblivion" is to think about "what art is".

It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.

Style is the art of getting yourself out of the way, not putting yourself in it.

Art... can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations.

My art side is free and there are no strings attached.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms.