Quotes About Art

Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your art is success, whether you make money from it or not.

I remember Steve Kaufman as the artist on Saturday Night Live doing the Pop Art portraits for the show.

I don't make a division between an art film and commercial art.

My art became very public.

True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.

True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature.

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.

The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Art is amoral, whether we accept this or not; it does not take sides. The finest fictions are cold at heart.

One of the challenges to our nation today is overcoming the notion that art is kind of a nice-to-have, when in reality art is a need-to-have.

Photography is the dominant and fascinating and only authentic folk art of the twentieth century.

If you can draw the stone rightly, everything within reach of art is also within yours.

What's beautiful about art is that it circumscribes a space, a physical and mental space. If you try to put the entire world into every page, you turn out chaos.

Computers creating art is an upsetting concept mostly because of what it means about humans.

The art of writing is mysterious, the opinions we hold are ephemeral.

Art is good but it isn't the best.

Perhaps art is simply an organism's reaction against its retentive limitations.

Art is prayer - not the vulgarized notations handed down to us in the scriptures, but a fresh vital discovery of one's own special presence in the world.

the art of reading hardly differs from the art of writing, in that its most intense pleasures and pains must remains private, and cannot be communicated to others.

Just as our historical beginnings are utterly mysterious-why are we born? why when and as we are?-so too are the beginnings of works of art and of "artists.

Art is one of the few careers without a mandatory retirement age.

Making art is a rite of initiation. People change their souls.

There are only fools who believe that art is a serious matter.