Quotes About Art

I don't think the government should touch art. Governments are risk averse. They encourage risk-averse personalities to be artists.

If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.

Art, after all, is traditionally displayed against vacancies: paintings on dun walls, sculptures in empty spaces, music in quiet halls.

The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, 'then' what do we do?

I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.

The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?

Whenever serious art loses track of its roots in the vernacular, then it begins to atrophy.

Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.

I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.

Schools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they're worse in cultural aspects, like in music and art. They don't teach you anything.

If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.

What seems distinctively modern as a unit of thought, of art, of discourse is the fragment; and the quotation is one kind of fragment.

One day, in the San Francisco walk, he came upon some badly painted figures and observed that good painters imitate nature but bad ones vomit it forth.

How often my soul visits the National Gallery, and how seldom

The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

You don't need tons of money to create art. You do need tons of money to be a part of show business. They are two different things.

I'm fascinated by how Hollywood has changed since I started. Today it's about immediate delivery. There's less risk and less art.

If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.

All great literature has an uncreeded and luminous theology behind it... Art [is] a form of active prayer.

I do not see any essential difference between abstract and primitive art. Both are simple and sincere. Naturally, we should not generalize in these matters: It is the individual artist that counts.

I shall praise those faces which seem to project out of the picture as though they were sculptured, and I shall censure those faces in which I see no art but that of outline.

I've studied astrology for many, many years, and I feel like it's an incredibly challenging art.

The important thing is to keep on drawing when you start to paint. Never graduate from drawing.