Quotes About Art

The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I've been thinking about that a lot.

Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human spirit is more important.

I want to be the person whose art is accessible, who someone could look at and say "That's doesn't look so hard, I could do that."

To have a museum like the Museum of Modern Art in New York is to have power. I don't have any interest in being the director of an institution that has power.

What really drives me mad about art is that, in America, the only thing you can do is to take it apart.

Great art transcends its culture and touches on that which is eternal.

The fight of satyagraha is for the strong in spirit, not the doubter or the timid. Satyagraha teaches us the art of living as well as dying.

I believe that all true art is classic, but the dictates of the mind rarely permit of its being recognized as such when it first appears.

So that's what art is, for the artist," said Crake. "An empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid.

Art is the free expression of the artist and they tried to stop us from expressing ourselves, our art.

Immaterial art is the strongest because there's no obstacle; there's just energy, and I believe in energy.

Both of my parents were cartoonists - they met in art school - so I was always drawing and I was the best artist in my class and all that stuff.

To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it.

Comedy is very hard, but you have to learn the art and science of it.

Art is like a fart for the soul. Better out than in.

Photography is Art and Art is Photography.

Duchamp's urinal was art once he put it in a gallery. In fact, one working definition of art is anything that is in a gallery.

Art is a tool that isnt used enough to effect change.

You'll see more violence in any television crime series than you will in my films Art is there to have a stimulating effect, if it earns its name. You have to be honest, that's the only thing.

The purpose of art actually is, in many cases, to make you feel quite uncomfortable. Or at least to go to that place that's already of discomfort inside of you and tap into that.

A wellborn mind that is practiced in dealing with people makes itself thoroughly agreeable by itself. Art is nothing else but thelist and record of the productions of such minds.

Art is so subjective--it means something different to every person. The important thing for it to do is to touch on the senses and emotions.

I never made "feminist art," and if I did it was not deliberate.

I'll never understand the art world. But I kind of feel like there's been some art world/black metal crossovers happening for a while.