Quotes About Art

It is always understood as an expression of condemnation when anything in Literature or Art is said to be done for effect; and yet to produce an effect is the aim and end of both.

Some poems are art because of their passion.

I always try to have a book on hand, traveling is an excellent way of providing perspective, and studying Art History has made going to art museums way more fun than you can imagine.

No artist knows everything... but since every artist knows more than he can tell, all art is lying by omission.

My art was not an answer - it was a question.

Art is created in a state of delirium. Anyting else is the restoration of monuments. Collectors are artist that do not have a home. they have to make one for themselves.

Art is the attention we pay to the wholeness of the world.

Only through apprehending, by means of present-day creations, how art is created, can the creations of other periods be genuinely appreciated.

I just feel that art is more important than ever, that art is something that can unify us, that can make America stronger.

Photography is a witness against the mistaken opinion that art is an imitation of nature.

I think it's always hard for people to get their head around the fact that populist, commercial films can also actually be great works of art.

I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. Hes very original, very accurate and acute.

Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there. It is next to beauty, and a very high art.

Art is contemplation of the world in a state of grace and imaginatively reflecting that subjective understanding.

Art is the filigrain of a little mind, and is twisted and involved and curled, but would reach farther if laid out in a straight line.

I doubt if there is a single really excellent art school now available in New York.

Discussions of Western civilization are too often confined to works of high art that reflect a relatively narrow element of public taste and experience.

Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [...] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment.

Art is a kind of artificial memory and the pain which attends all serious art is a sense of that factitiousness.

The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.

Art is the human process that produces by the way (it is not its only or ultimate object) Secondary Belief.

I was particularly proud of my performance as the Joker. I considered it a piece of pop art.

Art is only worth what people will pay for it. Artists do not get paid by the hour.

I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.