Quotes About Art

I appreciated art, long before I could produce it.

All good art cannot help but confront denial on its way to truth.

Works of Art are of an infinite loneliness.

An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.

I view art as an inspirational tool.

Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.

Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish patterns out of chaos.

It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art.

Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.

Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.

Art in the classroom not only spurs creativity, it also inspires learning.

For me, art is about learning and about living with people. It's alive.

Undeniably the American art form, too. And yet more and more, we see films made that diminish the American experience and example. And sometimes trash it completely.

People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.

Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.

I think in Europe, movies are made like a commodity and then sold as art.

I'd already decided I wanted to design shoes after I saw a sign in the Museum of African and Oceanic Art forbidding high heels. Well, who could resist?

There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it.

Technology adds nothing to art.

Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.

The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished.