Quotes About Art

. . .art is a discovery of harmony, a vision of disparities reconciled, or shape beneath confusion.

I really wasn't about to get a Ph.D. in art history, you know, which you'd absolutely needed. And that was not something I wanted. And I loved art history, but not that way.

I always thought there was a - even in the most, quote, "conceptual art," there is always a physical aspect to it. I never knew what the term meant.

I didn't like anti-Vietnam War art. I didn't like feminist art. I thought it was heavy-handed and stupid - as art.

The fine-art world knows very little about the cartoon world.

Art is a Great Goddess of infinite intrigue and illusion, and even a lifetime of worship may not find her fickle soul.

It's sometimes hard to talk about politics and art. Obviously, I have my core beliefs, but I think art is best when it's troublesome and pushes against stuff.

I think that my responsibility to my art is to try to get it right or to push the boundaries of what I'm able to do in any way.

A winning wave, (deserving note.) In the tempestuous petticote, A careless shoe-string, in whose tye I see a wilde civility,-- Doe more bewitch me than when art Is too precise in every part.

Works of art... do not force meanings on their audience; meaning emerges, adds up, unfolds from their imagined centres... takes one through the process of discovering meaning.

But of works of art little can be said.

The world around us is in a sea change, and I think the glory of art is that it cannot only survive change, it can lead it

The country is so wounded, bleeding, and hurt right now. The country needs to be healed-it's not going to be healed from the top, politically. How are we going to heal? Art is the healing force.

All art is holy. Not that it is all long-faced and miserable; it can be wild and wooly. But if it transforms you, it is art. And it is holy.

All art is the tension, expressed between the uncontainable and its one perfect inevitable form.

I'm not the type to turn to drugs and alcohol, but I do have a profound devotion to art and music - and children.

The job of the art is to really convey and support that empathetic response. I always try to find where the character is mushy, and then bring that to the forefront.

I knew my ticket out of the suburbs was art school, so I worked really hard to develop my portfolio and get a scholarship.

Art is inspiring. Walking into a gallery, or when the lights go up on a stage; that thrill of getting something that has nothing to do with acquisition.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period.

Art is the most important thing to me in the entire world. It is my passion. Nothing else. End of story.

Many outsiders see the art world as elitist and it is, except it is also oddly down-to-earth and embracing of oddballs who don't fit in well anywhere else.

Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss.

When I got into art school, I thought it was paradise. I wanted to be an artist so much that I was really driven and nothing could stop me.