Quotes About Art

Industry executives sacrificed art for what sells and mega-stars now saturate the market with the same tired lyrics.

Yoga is the art work of awareness on the canvas of mind,body and the soul.

Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.

There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don't know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.

Too much art was no art at all. Like candy instead of bread!

I was always trying to take art photographs, but the most interesting pictures were the snapshots. The artsy pictures were boring, always.

The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.

Art does not imitate, but interpret.

This idea of art for art's sake is a hoax.

Art could be said to be a symbol of the universe, being linked with that absolute spiritual truth which is hidden from us in our positivistic, pragmatic activities.

I do think that there's art that is tortured, but I prefer art that has the joy in it.

Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.

What has pleased and continues to please, is likely to please again; hence are derived the rules of art, and on this immovable foundation they must ever stand.

Arty farty, you'll never fool your Aunt, who knew you picked your nose and wet your pants.

The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter his rhyme.

If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it.

Ah, well, do I wish that we lived in a world where gender didn't figure so prominently? Of course. Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not.

The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.

An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist

Do you come to art to be comforted, or do you come to art to be re-skinned?

In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions: Commodity, Firmness and Delight.

What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.

We live in constant danger of coming apart. The mystery of why we do not always come apart is the animating tension of all art.

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.