Quotes About Art

As yet we use our media only for selling things - including, of course, political candidates. What will happen when someone masters the art of selling souls?

Art should offend people because art should challenge people.

I take the same approach in all genres of art, across the board. It's intuitive.

There is an Easter sense in which all things are made new in the risen Christ. A tiny gleam of this is reflected in all true art.

... photography is just a medium. It's like a typewriter. Photography as an art doesn't interest me an awful lot; as a participant, though I like to look at it.

Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction.

So much of the art of film is to do less. To aspire to do less.

If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.

Although the photographer and the art thief were close friends, neither had ever taken the other's picture.

I don't like to write a script unless I know who the artist is. A lot of people can do it without that, and that's cool, but I like to look at the art.

There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing.

The art which is grand and yet simple is that which presupposes the greatest elevation both in artist and in public.

It is the art of mankind to polish the world, and every one who works is scrubbing in some part.

Music ministers to human welfare more than any other art.

You must neither completely nor partially copy the art of others. If so, you will be producing kitsch.

Kitsch is certainly not "bad art," it forms its own closed system.

The arts are not a luxury. They are an integral part of our lives as individuals and as a nation.

First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place.

Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.

I think that music is still art, even if it's commercialised.

The entire art system urgently needs a vacation.

When literature becomes overly erudite, it means that interest in the art has gone and curiosity about the artist is what's important. It becomes a kind of idolatry.

It's all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.

Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment.