Quotes About Art

Writing is a performance art for me. They're very closely aligned, writing and performing. But I'm a writer, not a performer.

Art is fast, but with art you're tied down. That's too negative. What I mean is, you have a business and a place that you go every day. I guess some artists do move around.

I studied anthropology and art history, as I have always been captivated by living traditions.

Great art is created only through diligent and painstaking effort to perfect and polish oneself.

Art is only great if it's uncodifiable. If art isn't scaring you, if it's not making you upset, then I don't think it's actually doing anything.

Art class was my thing, but not any other class.

Art is an irreplaceable way of understanding and expressing the world.

The power of art is that it can connect us to one another, and to larger truths about what it means to be alive and what it means to be human.

I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.

There's a point where art is not subjective, and my example for that is Picasso. If you don't like Picasso, that's your problem.

I've always been obsessed by visual art as I have been by music personally, but that doesn't mean anything professionally.

I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.

I've never been interested in, much in the politics of the art world, it doesn't interest me.

I can never fathom it when people say things like "I can't understand abstract art!" Or: "Abstract art is junk!" Or: "Abstract art isn't as valid as realism!"

When the established members of academia start becoming vocal as to how poor your art is, then you know you're on to something.

Only thanks to Pop Art, my painting has become understandable.

Things that bring out your emotions are what should be in theaters and in books. That's what art is. It makes you feel things.

People say great art is immortal. I say there's something mortal in it. It carries a glimpse of death.

When you get questions that annoy you the art is answering them differently. If you're bored with it, then everyone will be bored with it.

One of the pleasures of art is that it enables the mind to move in unanticipated directions, to make connections that may be in some sense errors but are fruitful nonetheless.

Most great art is freedom within form. Without form, we are amateurs, without freedom, we are robots.

Sport is about achievements. Art is to be touch and touch others in a personal level.

You can't teach art, so ART SCHOOL is a contradiction in terms.

I really don't know what's good or bad art because all the art I like people tell me is tasteless.