Quotes About Art

Art's supposed to build logic structures.

I always imagine that I want to make art that is going to kill you,whether it's going to do it visually or physically, I'll take either way.

Judson Church was a very important place because they believed in art. They also took care of drug addicts. Without the Judson, nothing could have happened.

One is also reminded of how, in art, the tortoise so often overtakes the hare.

Film really is a collaborative art.

Ive lost much of my heart and the spark or fire that once created, or produced, the art of fiction.

If I ever have a conflict between art and nature, I let art win.

In art, one does not aim for simplicity; one achieves it unintentionally as one gets closer to the real meaning of things.

Because all the sick do not recover, therefore medicine is not an art.

You don't have to be Michelangelo to teach basic art, just as you don't have to be Shakespeare to be able to teach the correct use of language.

Religion is simply art bastardized out of all recognition.

Why write [about my art]? Why not just show the photographs?

The art of fiction is freedom of will for your characters.

Writing as an art form belongs to all people, regardless of economic class or educational level. . . . A writer is someone who writes.

The critic interested in a novel manifestation holds his criteria and taste in reserve. Since they were formed upon yesterday's art, he does not assume that they are ready-made for today.

To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion, art and craft, good housekeeping, living.

The Art of Fulfillment is the ability to experience not only the thrill of the chase, but also the magic of the moment, the unbridled joy of feeling truly alive.

Pop culture was in art Now, art's in pop culture in me

I like the fact that I can rep New York, but my style does not - I'm not trapped in a New York thing. I can do art songs with other artists and it's seamless.

Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.

But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.

The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.

Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art -- or almost the only stuff.

This is the golden age of grotesque.