Quotes About Art

Art amplifies voices on the margins-the views and opinions that power silences.

As generations come and go, Their arts, their customs, ebb and flow; Fate, fortune, sweep strong powers away, And feeble, of themselves, decay.

I come from a culture that has refined the art of the dirge to a sublime level.

It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than the artwork itself.

I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.

All art is abstract, because art is an abstraction of the truth.

Art is art. You can take it or leave it. Liking it or not liking it does not make you a better person, and who you like or dislike results in the same thing.

I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don't normally get to go.

If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad.

Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.

Where does contagion end and art begin?

Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and myth are ways of bringing order and form into this chaos.

I think comedy as an art involves the audience as a participant as much as is involves the artist.

But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating.

Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.

Colors are light's suffering and joy

Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself.

Art tends toward balance, order, judgment of relative values, the laws of growth, the economy of living – very good things for anyone to be interested in.

We always search for the signature of God to prove His existence. And now I say unto you that Art is His very signature!

My art is the result of a deeply personal, infinitely complex, and still essentially mysterious, exploration of experience. No words will ever touch it.

An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.

When you steal from an artist you are stealing their blood, sweat and tears.

Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.