Quotes About Art

You know the Art Rule: Do something that entertains/interests YOU, if you're lucky it'll do the same for others.

Rhyme written in graffiti xeroxed on blueprints, students influenced are now a nuisance.

Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art.

You can spend your money on art works and sit down and look at them. Or you can use your money to help people.

Count art by gold, and it fetters the feet it once winged.

Writing is a kind of performing art, and I can't sit down to write unless I'm dressed. I don't mean dressed in a suit, but dressed well and comfortably and I have to be shaved and bathed.

People often say 'I live for my art.' Bullshit! If you are given a talent it's to be used. It's not in the private domain.

Mystery is the art of eliciting unseen things hidden in the shadow of natural ones... and serving to demonstrate as real the things that are not.

Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value.

I'm very aware of how much movies, literature and art affect culture. They are a reflection of the world around us and they are also a means by which we engage with the world around us.

The realists do not take the photograph for a 'copy' of reality, but for an emanation of past reality, a magic, not an art.

In art there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists

You can't understand how strange it was to be a sculptor who exhibited photographs. (On exhibitions of his earthworks and land art pieces.)

In 1967 there was no place for photography in a contemporary art gallery. It was almost impossible to get an art dealer to look at, let alone exhibit, anything photographic.

Colour is the ultimate in art. It is still and will always remain a mystery to us, we can only apprehend it intuitively in flowers.

If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social change. It's not what it's for.

The public buys "art" - but the word is drained of its meaning.

Movies suddenly became film and cinema an art form and terribly chic.

There have been countless changes in the long history of art. The most significant have been brought about by the genius of a single artist.

In every artist there is poetry. In every human being there is the poetic element. We know, we feel, we believe.

And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums.

Films are an art form which are sold after packaging in this commercial world

when I came to know Greek art I instantly understood that excess and perfection are enemies; yet on the other hand this world and the millions of worlds around us live by fire ... !

Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry