Quotes About Art

There's no such thing as autobiography, there's only art and lies

I didn't want make art about the internet at all. It's a really hard subject to take on and I did not set out to do that. But, it was real and it was what was happening.

SM is an art. Doing it well requires more than a bag full of expensive whips and exotic electrical toys, a closet full of fetish clothes, or a basement filled with bondage furniture.

I like the platform to show your art and everything that goes along with that. To show your voice and hopefully find films that are more politically driven, films that maybe inspire.

Baseball is beautiful....the supreme performing art. It combines in perfect harmony the magnificent features of ballet, drama, art, and ingenuity.

To extend the depth of what has been called 'art' into photography requires... making available to the spectator the amazing transformations the subject undergoes to become the photograph.

The most important person is the audience and the composer. The rest of us - and even the composer is a servant to the audience. And of course, the audience is a servant to the higher art.

The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speakes he lies.

I think the business of music has really taken a huge hit. There's no doubt about it. But an artist is always going to produce their art, their music. They're going to paint, they're going to write.

I'm married to an artist. I get a lot of inspiration from art, from the lighting in art, from the compositions in art, from the textures, and all of that. I'm always playing with it.

I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.

the detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them!

Everything on my body has a meaning. I don't do art just because. It does look cool but it also has a meaning.

I think much sociopolitical art delivers truisms that are quite flat.

Only tyrannies understand the power of art.

The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.

I always distrust the word art when it is applied to acting.

We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all.

Once they witnessed one of his painting sold at auction for $100,000. And asked how you do it, he said, 'I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.'

Nothing in art should seem accidental, not even movement

Art speaks its own language-soul to soul, heart to heart.

Do your art. But don't wreck your art if it doesn't lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.

Today, I find inspiration in music, art, traveling the world, and meeting new people.

Camp is art that proposes itself seriously, but cannot be taken altogether seriously because it is 'too much.