Quotes About Art

I wanted not to make photographs that would be art, but art that would be photography.

I was loving music, and loving art, painting, so I was considering those things, but I must say I dug acting as well.

I resent the fact that a parental warning sticker has to be included on an album as cover art. To me that's censorship.

I attended the Columbus College Of Art & Design for a little while, until I realized they didn't take cartooning very seriously.

A lot of times your best sales rep, that A++ player, kills it on a regular basis...but can never describe how they do it. They look at sales as an art, not a science.

People regard art too highly, and history not enough

Not many people realise this, but you don't actually learn anything at art college any more; however, you do have to go there to find that out.

The craft of writing is the art of penetrating other minds with the figures that are in your own mind.

Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.

The art of an actress is sublimated sexuality. But off the stage the fire must be able to reconvert the steam into body.

I went back to my mother's house recently and I saw some of my earlier works as a 15-year-old art student. And a lot of them were reiterations of classic works.

Coming into Pacifica I knew that I wanted whatever I was going to learn there, I knew I wanted to integrate that into my art no matter what.

Being American is, I think, a very difficult thing in art, because all the elements are European.

I am one of the heretics who believes that art must be enjoyed first and analyzed later.

Nobody needs an Artist, but everyone needs ART.

If you want to explore, go do it. If you want to try different types of art, do it.

History and legend and art and romance meet and mingle to create that indefinable sorcery of Venice. It is like nothing on earth except a poet's dream.

Let your deafness no longer be a secret - even in art.

It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.

My sister is an artist and an interior designer. She went to high school for art. I went to high school for music.

An abstract painting need in 50 years by no means look "abstract" any longer.

No form of nature is inferior to art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.

Survival is an art. It requires the dulling of the mind and the senses, and a delicate attunement to waiting, without insisting on precision about just what it is you are waiting for.