Quotes About Art

I never saw the point in listening to only one thing. The low art/high art distinction comes from the establishment telling me how I'm supposed to think.

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.

Making art is like giving a gift: evidence of your spirit and that you are here.

Programming is the art of writing essays in crystal clear prose and making them executable

Art is not nature... There was a lot more to be got out of color.

Most works of art are, necessarily, bad...; one suffers through the many for the few.

Tolstoy's definition of art is the inverse of the truth; the task of art is to transform not perception into feeling, but feeling into perception.

It has been a sort of maxim, that the greatest art is to conceal art; but I know not how, among some people we meet with, their greatest cunning is to appear cunning.

Conceptual art is only good if the idea is good.

Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.

Art is the only power capable of destroying the internet.

Thus all Art is propaganda and ever must be.

An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but a plaything.

Making art is nothing but risk, always. If it's not risk, it's no good.

And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.

I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes.

Art is long, and the talk about it is even longer.

The literary artist lends verbal depth to the visual. The visual artist provides visible articulation for the literary.

For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst, a color in that, is very exciting.

Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?

"The "art of tea" is a spiritual force for us to share."

Sincerity and the correct use of the voice are the greatest things in the art of acting.

My dream is for my flowers to act as beacons and rallying points across the planet - bringing people together on a global scale and through my art start a global conversation.

The only domain where the divine is visible is that of art, whatever name we choose to call it.