Quotes About Art

My parents weren't artistic, but I was always surrounded by beautiful things. And Mexico is a country which has experienced thousands of years of art and culture.

Art is an infinitely precious good, a draught both refreshing and cheering which restores the stomach and the mind to the natural equilibrium of the ideal.

One of the first obligations of art is to make all useful things beautiful.

Whether it's a street poster on a brick wall, a magazine cover on a newsstand, or animation on a movie screen - art is an effective means of communicating with large numbers of people.

art is not advocacy and advocacy is not art.

I worked my way through art school as an auto mechanic, doing various stuff including sanding bodywork and using Bondo filler.

Art is the questioning of culture

In a nation that has developed to a high art advertising, the creator who refuses to advertise himself is immediately suspected of having no product worth selling.

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is black charcoal crushing white paper.

Art is a wholly physical language whose words are all the visible objects.

All art is an abstraction to some degree.

The depths modern art has been exploring are mysterious depths, full of strange fish.

The divine art is the story.

Art is no longer anything more than a kind of meta-language for banality.

That's the test of street art – to see if anybody stopped. People would cross out ones they didn't like and would star others. I liked that people would engage with them.

One function of art is to de-kitschify kitsch.

Who is one's audience, the spiritually hostile professional art world or one's visually insensitive Christian neighbour?

Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliché for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.

Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it.

Art is something that everyone should be able to have access to.

Football is the priority, even more than school. Art is frowned upon. I had to sneak music in.

Both science and art have to do with ordered complexity.

Great art always transcends its culture, while lesser art merely reflects it.

I never understood the low art/high art distinction.