Quotes About Art

If you really want to hurt your parents and you don't have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts.

I'd like to go back to Paris someday and visit the Lourve museum, get a good running start, and hurl myself at the wall.

I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody said that she does not look like it, but that does not make any difference, she will, he said.

The important thing about Dada, it seems to me, is that Dadaists despised what is commonly regarded as art, but put the whole universe on the lofty throne of art.

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.

It is hard to find beauty in the art of self expression.

The artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but rather the adapting of form to its inner meaning.

The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.

First study the science, and then practice the art which is born of that science.

Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces.

Architecture is the king or queen of the arts.

Tiger Woods is like a piece of fine art that belongs in the Louvre, and so, too, is Scott Medlock's painting of Tiger Woods and Sergio Garcia...a true masterpiece!

The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.

Creativity is the art of the impossible

Among the planets of the arts, architecture is the dark side of the moon.

Comedy, although it is not one of the fine arts - it's a vulgar art, it's one of the people's arts, it's the spoken word, the writing that goes into it is an art form - it's certainly artistry.

If people knew how hard I worked at my art, they would not consider me a genius.

With no pretensions of art, Viva Las Vegas, the new Elvis Presley vehicle, is about as pleasant and unimportant as a Banana Split.

I think art should be controversial. I think it should make people think.

Whoever you are, if you know what you're doing, you don't want other people to overtake the merit of your art.

I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the art of something. And writing was very private.

I believe the cinema is one of our principal forms of art. It is an incredibly powerful way to tell uplifitng stories that can move people to cry with joy and inspire them to reach for the stars.

The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.

Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.