Quotes About Art

I am here on Earth to express myself, and the many media of art are my magic carpets that allow me the freedom to do so.

Fashion should go back to what it should be: closer to art, not totally commercial but have some artistic value at its core.

And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship.

We're making tin gods out of those poor buffoons in Hollywood; I dote on movies and appreciate the scanty art therein but I consider the profession about the most debased and debasing I know.

Most arts require long study and application, but the most useful art of all, that of pleasing, requires only the desire.

In art the Greeks were the children of the Egyptians. The day may yet come when we shall do justice to the high powers of that mysterious and imaginative people.

Art should be as inclusive as possible. That's why I like bringing the low form of puppetry and elevating it into a sculpture form, but it's still a puppet also.

Buy Old Masters. They fetch a much better price than old mistresses.

I never really considered film as a career, but I knew I didn't want to be a builder. So I went to art college, and it just gradually happened.

We have no physical model of this endless rhythm of individuation and involvement, we do have its image in the world of art, most purely in dance.

When we talk about contemporary art and contemporary artists, we usually imagine artists who are alive. But I feel very uncomfortable about placing a border between living artists and dead artists.

Between the wolf in the tall grass and the wolf in the tall story there is a shimmering go-between. That go-between, that prism, is the art of literature.

When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection.

Art in progress. MAK has occupied a unique and valuable space as international host for discourse between the arts and architecture.

I am an illusionist - that's why I create art.

The art of our necessities is strange That can make vile things precious.

It is terrifying to think of what a commodity art has become.

I'd rather produce art than become art.

Don't make art for other artists or for 'intellectuals', make art for people - and if you can touch just one person in a lifetime and make a difference - you have succeeded.

I think with art you have to do a bit of transforming of the subject to make the art worth having.

He only moves toward the perfection of his art whose criticism surpasses his achievement.

Any piece of art, when you're putting it on a certain platform, if the platform becomes a political place, you can manipulate things.

Creativity is the art that can give rise to visionary metaphorical relationships, as opposed to purely psy-chological ones.

We by art unteach what Nature taught.