Quotes About Art

Art has this long history, predating even language, of expressing nonverbal information.

I think it's important to make art that is not that easily absorbable, that is a challenge to the authorities.

From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies.

I'm not a nice girl; I'm a photographer. (On being told by a Federal Art Project official, after she photographed the Bowery, that a nice girl should not go into such neighborhoods )

In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.

The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of flying straight.

The Woodstock Film festival is among the finest of a dying breed: a festival that isn't trying to sell you anything, but simply and beautifully celebrating the art & craft of filmmaking.

Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle.

A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored.

Well my taste wasn't very good when I first started out. But later, when I began to appreciate the art of acting, I would say the actress I most admire is Vanessa Redgrave.

Kitsch makes things that are pretty as representations, but ugly as art, modern artists made things that are ugly as representations but beautiful as art.

To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.

Art solves nothing, either for the artist himself or for those who receive his art.

Why are we willing to accept a new mathematical formula we don't understand as the product of a brilliant mind, while rejecting a new art form we don't understand as the product of a deranged mind?

Finding a master of the dark art of ninjutsu in modern westernized Japan seems as unlikely as finding an active practitioner of the magic of Merlin in contemporary industrialized England.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

Art just consists in making us swallow the commonplaces by charming us eternally.

You stand your ground and you perform your art. That's what the artist does. The artist is about perfection.

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

And the thing that I always tried to do with important singers when I met them was to sit down and record everything they knew, give them a first real run-through of their art.

An artist cannot be partially sincere any more than art can be an approximation of beauty.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.