Quotes About Art

Art is awkward until technique has become an unconscious habit.

The swing of art is circular, from form to formalism, from formalism to formlessness, from formlessness to form again.

That art is best which suggests most.

Teaching at university isn't like teaching in an art school.

Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.

Art is consumed in so many different ways. You could say people don't stop to appreciate art. On the other hand, people can consume art more quickly.

Art is the terms of an armistice signed with fate.

The most glorious thing about working in the collaborative art is when you have somebody like Susan Kingsley or Kathy Bates who are better than your play.

It was easy to leave the art world after I found out that it was just another corporation. When they told me I had to create the same thing, I rebelled.

The galleries are simply corporations in the art world - "Here's a million dollars for this latest piece of crap" - but I'm not about to go along with the gallery system.

I think all art is subjective - that whoever's watching it or listening to it will decide whether it's good or bad.

Art is a never-ending dance of illusions.

I was attracted to things that combined art and science equally. I've always been equally interested in art design, science and engineering.

I think I always knew that I would do something with art because it was the one thing that I knew I was really good at.

I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning.

Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!

I grew up in the art world.

Making music and art is about expressing something that's universally human, maybe even beyond human, at best.

If art is the poetic interpretation of nature, photography is the exact translation; it is exactitude in art or the complement of art. (1854)

Well, we have certainly produced great art before we did this. In my view, there are any number of areas of government which tax money should not be spent.

I started to paint in the year 2000. I never thought of going to an art school, even though I loved art.

I feel like contemporary art is everywhere now and with the rise of the internet, it's so much easier to see what artists are doing and to follow their careers.

Duchamp is known for calling a thing art, rather than making it. A lot of that is picked up in pop art, too.

I had no idea what art was. There was one art class in high school, but it didn't make a big impression on me. Then I went to college and thought I'd become a writer.