Quotes About Art

There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter.

What gives me hope is art - it's the most powerful weapons ever created. It's a weapon of mass construction.

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.

Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.

Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

For ages past the Genius of Literature and the Genius of Art have walked together hand in hand. For the Goddess of letters is blind, and only she of Art can lend her sight.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.

Although even when I am being idle I have plenty of food for thought both early and late - thoughts both about and not about art.

I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.

Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.

What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit.

Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others' expectations can be avoided.

Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic.

At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways.

Fashion, for me, is anything that's aesthetic and beautiful. Art, food, film. It's something that I appreciate and really like.

I tell myself I use art to promote dissent, but maybe I am just using dissent to promote my art. I plead not guilty to selling out. But I plead it from a bigger house than I used to live in.

Today's art has been cancelled due to police activity.

It is not the job of art to mirror. Images reflected in a mirror appear to us in reverse. An artist's responsibility is to reveal consciousness; to produce a human document.