Quotes About Art

But I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.

Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.

Buy art, build a museum, put your name on it, let people in for free. That's as close as you can get to immortality.

For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of photography but I don't agree.

Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside, extra thing.

The first choice an artist makes is precisely to be an artist, and if he chooses to be an artist it is in consideration of what he is himself and because of a certain idea he has of art

With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films, I became a filmmaker who dabbled in the arts.

What the study of history and artistic creation have in common is a mode of forming images.

There were times in the past that I got angry at some members of the press whose writings greatly disrupted my serious pursuit of art and my behavior as an artist.

A menial task which must be mine, that shall I glorify and make an art of it.

The first virtue of a painting is to be a feast for the eyes.

It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognise out of a number of facts which are incidental and which are vital.

I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.

The oldest of the arts and the youngest of the professions.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

Part of the strength of Pollock and Rothko's art, in fact, is this doubt as to whether art may be there at all.

In the early 2000s, I was introduced to the noble art of kickboxing, it thrilled me, and I loved it. I loved the honour and the discipline, and I also loved the punching.

In art, to express the infinite one should suggest infinitely more than is expressed.

The idea of a detached art, of poetry as a charm which exists only to distract our leisure, is a decadent idea and an unmistakable symptom of our power to castrate.

Art among a religious race produces reliques [sic]; among a military one, trophies; among a commercial one, articles of trade.

In the hands of a master, light and shade is one of the great qualities of art.

Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts.

Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.