Quotes About Art

The art is just really mysterious. If I understood it more, maybe I would write more.

Art is not boosterism, it's not propaganda, and it's not spin, but that's not something that art does, and nor has it historically ever done it.

Speaking out and creating art that truly reflects the world we live in goes part of the way towards doing that. At least that's what I hope.

I realized [using my own voice] is what creates the performance in the performance art and that's what helps creates the distance for the viewers, like the distance that I get when I step back.

Even though the art world goes through trends, you do know that it'll come up again.

Many with careers in the art world are intimidated, and afraid to speak out against the gospels of Modernist theory.

Art is only abstract when you look the other way.

I always wanted to be a doctor and go to art school, but I thought Id regret it if I didnt act.

Teaching is performance art.

Just because you're wearing a goofy hat doesn't make it performance art.

My soul is a canvas stretched across four wooden corners and tacked with copper nails that sink into the edges of timber like teeth. My art is nothing less than my salvation.

I think it was a matter of, like, I'm not going to have my kids in these wild streets. Both my twin brother and I were in art school together.

I was 11 when I was first introduced to live drawing classes and going to art school.

I don't think rock n' roll songwriters should worry about art. I don't think it comes into it...as far as I'm concerned, Art is just short for Arthur.

I have never been sorry to see my sets being struck, provided they are well photographed. They're not works of art but part of making a film.

Art is the most benign cultural practice, and yet art has an upper bound of personal revelation that is so far away it is basically a horizon.

Leonardo is the Hamlet of art history whom each of us must recreate for himself.

What I'm doing in writing has been thoroughly and exhaustively explored in other fields like visual art, music, and cinema, yet somehow it's never really been tested on the page.

I suppose it's true that most great television, literature, and other forms of high art (and basic cable) benefit from a little hindsight. "M.A.S.H." comes to mind. So does The Iliad.

A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.

Art is art, and journalism is journalism.

One of the great things about collecting contemporary art is that you mix with contemporary people.

The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.

While appropriation art is critical to art, it's an ambiguous art form in the world of the Supreme Court.