Quotes About Art

I feel like I have a pretty eclectic taste in music and art, so for every song I can see a different kind of video.

I was attracted to a lot of different art forms - dancing, painting. But there's something about music that people hold so close. It's such a powerful art form, and that's why I live for it.

Art-school girls are very nice.

Nature often lets us down when we most need her; let us turn to art.

We need more drag king role models for all those interested in the art

Many of the left thinkers that really matter to me - that formed a big part of my thinking about politics and art - emphasize how capitalism is a totality, how there's no escape from it, no outside.

It's not the medium, but the quality of perception and expression, that determines the significance of art.

Art does not have to be dull, to be effective; the artist does not have to be a bore, to be real.

Poems are language turned into art; sound and sense matter; they can be as long or longer than The Odyssey or as short or shorter than a haiku. Not very helpful.

This industry [photography], by invading the territories of art, has become art's most mortal enemy.

You'll need to suffer to make any real art.

My first exploration through art was really through music - I've trained classically with piano for about ten years.

The challenge artists face today is whether to be an underground, unheard genius, or to dilute their art for the marketplace.

I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature.

Self-creation is the highest art.

The visual arts must communicate to the human spirit, forcing individuals to reflect on themselves and their existence beyond their own self-interest.

Government is an art, not a science, and an adventure, not a planned itinerary.

Though some may think there should be a separation between art/music and politics, it should be reinforced that art can be a form of nonviolent protest.

Photography is an art which touches and grips one's own heart's blood.

In both metaphysics and art, honesty is the best policy. Keep it clean.

There is no question that advertising is an art, and manipulation is the art of advertising through the medium of the tape.

Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft.

True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats.

I don't even believe in magic, or ghosts or anything like that, and yet in a city like New York, on the subway, I definitely see ghosts and art seems to have some magical properties.