Quotes About Art

Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair; it cannot be taught or demonstrated--it is an art.

Songwriting's never been a natural art for me; it's always been a bit of a struggle.

As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at things.

All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation's art form.

Originality in art puts charm where it wasn't.

All I want to do is give the world my heart... Record label tryina make me compromise my art.

I'm delighted with it, because it used to be that films were the lowest form of art. Now we've got something to look down on.

Art lies in the fine choice. The artist does not teach us to see facts: he teaches us to feel harmonies.

Do you know that drawing with words is also an art... ?

Perfectionism kills art. I find that if I criticise myself, it spoils the fun. You can get paralysed by analysis - it takes all the playfulness away.

Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what really produced a master like Raphael.

A wasp in a wig is altogether beyond the appliances of art.

A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have yet established.

Ive come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs.

Wrestling needs to be about the art form again. It needs to be about painting a picture and having a really good match.

Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.

If cooking becomes an art form rather than a means of providing a reasonable diet, then something is clearly wrong.

The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.

Art can make the old surprising, and the new and sudden soothing.

How can any person justify an aesthetic that reduces a woman or child to an emaciated skeleton? Is it art? Surely fashion's aesthetic should enhance and beautify the human form, not destroy it.

Robert Creely's poems have two main characteristics. 1) They are short; 2) they are not short enough.

Public art existed all along, but ecological art just naturally grew out of my thinking and writings in that area for years. I didn't get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.

As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years.

Nothing so resembles a daub as a masterpiece.