Quotes About Art

Art is always subject to change in a moment by somebody who's strong enough to shed new light on it.

It's possible I am the only art critic that a lot of people read. And maybe Robert Hughes, if he's still writing.

My problem with political art is not that it's bad art necessarily, but that it is terrible politics.

Im not trying to do conceptual art.

To me, thoughts are fun and art is fun. The strength of our society should not be idle entertainments but the joy of pursuing ideas.

A city's art must give the impression that art is as indispensable a thing as water, or food.

Art is always of fixed, determined solutions - not things that might as well be different.

Marketing of art is, and to my mind has always been, trendy. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean there is any real long-term value. As an artist I do what I like. As a collector I collect what I like.

The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.

If art is to have a special train, the critic must keep some seats reserved on it.

Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.

Art is most effective when concealed.

Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.

My natural orientation has never been among a community of writers, really. For some reason my social world has always been in the art world.

A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.

Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing so little to be reached as with criticism.

My art is representational by choice....if the art of painting is to survive, it must describe and express people, their lives and times. It must communicate.

The highest art one can learn is the art of loving, and that the ultimate creativity and the highest art are born out of a knack - meditation.

Art is evidence of our most creative moment.

Art is long, and critics are the insects of a day.

The art school babe quotes William Blake as she rolls a joint, then I think that I'll score.

I don't make art with grandiose delusions. I do know there are limits to what art is capable of. That makes it all the more appealing to me. And I can do as I will whenever I choose.

Art is art. Television has elevated itself, in certain ways, but it's always pushed people's consciousness.

We play different people - our art form is performance art - so unless you're playing the same type of person, I don't know if you could improve or make it worse.