Quotes About Art

In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.

Art is a framework, a kind of living trellis, on which public dreaming can shape itself.

I think furniture is art. I don't think art is just for your walls - I think everything that someone has made is a piece of art.

I have little art piece, a kind of short film thing I filmed with my friend. It's going to be 20 minutes, and we're going to submit it into festivals but also going to art galleries.

Translated books rarely get reviewed in the press. Books or poems or works of art that don't seem to have a corresponding style or figure or theme, obviously they're hard to digest.

I think so much of art is unconscious anyway, the artist doesn't know the real reason they're doing it. They're just kind of going along with it intuitively.

I'd been used to this idea of destructive performance art instead of a slick, good-sounding show. So, I became frustrated as I felt I'd been doing the shows wrong. That sucked.

For me taking a pragmatic decision when it comes to art is almost an oxymoron. The reason I first picked up a pen and wrote a story had nothing pragmatic in it.

grievance does not make for great art.

I was forced to make the decision between art and music which are the only two things I liked as opposed to being able to do them both because that's what I was interested in.

Currencies are things that you use to pay for other things; commodities are things that you buy. If art is going to be one or the other, it's going to be a commodity, not a currency.

In the art world, Monet means money.

No art is sunk in the self, but rather, in art the self becomes self-forgetful in order to meet the demands of the thing seen and the thing being made.

Art is both a vengeance against reality and a reconciliation with it.

In the art world Robert Rauschenberg had been combining common materials that people thought was art and beautiful, and it was. If he could do that, I could emulate him.

I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you.

A master of an art is someone who's been mastered by the art. They've become so one with what they teach that you can't tell the teacher from the student.

Art is the splendor of reality before everything has become meaning.

And so while dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is (in a broader sense) the play with dreams.

Art is the right hand of Nature.

Only a lunatic would think that art is superior to nature.

I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.

Music and acting are the same thing: you must understand that art is only the search, not the final form.

I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation.