Quotes About Art

The great challenge is how to make smart, intelligent art that can speak to everybody.

I don't pretend to know anything about art. I make pictures for entertainment, and then the professors tell me what they mean.

Postmodernism does not facilitate better art. It rationalizes inferior art by wrapping it in words - a suit of armor with nobody inside.

Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind; cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism.

Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure. I always seem to be wrapped in the melodrama of vulgarity. I do not think... of art as a situation of comfort.

Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them.

Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.

Books like Twilight are not art. They are mass-produced crap that is meant to be consumed by the widest possible audience, for the largest possible profit.

Art is a delayed echo.

A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.

I like music because it's the only invisible art form.

When I went to college, and I went to art school, I started to realize that Warhol was cool and that pop art was fun.

Contemporary art photography, or, more specifically, what I would term mainstream art photography, represents for the most part the mining of an exhausted lode.

Because Chinese art is booming, it legitimizes this profession.

The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.

I think performance art comes from a simple place of wanting to express things beyond just sound.

Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.

If you had a large vase with a big crack down the middle of it, a Japanese art museum would put the vase on a pedestal and shine a spotlight on the crack!

All art is concerned with coming into being.

All art is a form of artifice.For in art there can be no prejudices.

I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908)

Art is all about becoming a name, a brand; it isn't based on talent or creativity.

I feel like the movie is reminding people of who they are, which is what I think all great art does.

Art is form struggling to wake from the nightmare of nature.