Quotes About Art

Most artists are surrealists. ... always dreaming something and then they paint it.

Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

The greatest art comes out of warmth and conviction and deep feeling, but then, very few people, even geniuses, have all that.

If you see yourself reflected in art, you feel validated.

I doubt that art needed Ruskin any more than a moving train needs one of its passengers to shove it.

I always wanted to be an artist, I just didn't know that you could be, or how you could be. I went to an art high school but they never even took me to a gallery.

Just like any woman,...we weave our stories out of our bodies. Some of us through our children, or our art; some do it just by living. It's all the same.

Alltami (n.) The ancient art of being able to balance the hot and cold shower taps.

Where are you, my little object of art? I am here to collect you.

Angela King is a lovely person with a tremendous sense of art.

Horror films are art, it's all make believe. It's great if a filmmaker can try to push boundaries and see how much an audience can take and see what happens. It's fun to be able to do that.

I want to be an improviser, and I've worked very hard at that. It's an art. You don't just play whatever comes into your head; you have to be very deliberate about what you do.

The Holy Spirit speaks many languages; among them the languages of art in all its forms.

No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation.

... alas! in the exercise of the arts, industry scarce bears the name of merit.

In living, as in art, rules are drawn from practice; not the other way around.

The construction itself is an art, its application to the world an evil parasite.

The error in the art-genre of Opera consists herein: a Means of expression (Music) has been made the end, while the End of expression (the Drama) has been made a means.

All art emulates the condition of ritual. That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment.

Writing is a channeling of an individual experience; so is reading. That's what's so exciting about this art form - it's interactive.

What's interesting about art in public spaces is that the public really sort of takes over and uses it in ways that you didn't anticipate.

Technology is technology and then art form and people's creativity is another thing. Anything that helps an artist do anything - great! Technology for technology sake doesn't mean much to me anyway.

The Author is subtly unflinching in its satirical attack on certain practices in the creation of art and the mediation of violence.

I'm completely self-taught. I absolutely don't believe in art or film schools!