Quotes About Art

Literature was intended to be dangerous. Art was meant to be dangerous. Ideas were nothing if they were not dangerous.

I've learnt so much from every film and every director - a new perspective, a greater appreciation of the art.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it's in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one's own.

Through the last few decades it [the art object] has been ripped off the wall and twisted through every conceivable permutation, yet back to the wall it insists on going.

The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls 'inspiration.'

Art flows more easily when you are not thinking about what 'should' be in it or how it 'should' be done. The Impressionists taught us to look and see, not assume.

Magic and art tend to share a lot of the same language. They both talk about evocation, invocation, and conjuring.

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.

Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form.

The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple.

I may not be much good at most things, but if I didnt have the pleasure of planning and installing shows, and doing it better than anyone else, I would have stopped buying art many years ago.

It looks like the kind of thing my daughter would bring back from school art lessons.

In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not in criticism or commentary.

Actors have no color. That's the art form.

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure; neither the greatest captains nor the greatest philosophers have disdained the use or science of eating well.

Ideas aren't real estate, they grow collectively and that knocks out the egotistical loneliness that generally infects art.

Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art.

My work is all about creating new paths for thinking about the possibilities inherent in all art; another world is possible!

The essence of drawing is the line exploring space.

My art recognizes the human place, the human context - especially in Britain, which is a landscape so worked by people for thousands of years, written, deeply ingrained with the presence of people.

First I have a think, and then I put a line around it.

Those who call themselves art photographers are pompous, arrogant egoists.

That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe.