Quotes About Art

At dances when I was a little kid, Art would be up there singing while I'd be dancing with some girl a foot taller than me.

Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural arts movements.

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I like '50s and '60s American art. I have 85 or 90 Warhols.

Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.

Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private.

Distilling is such a strange and arcane art, still. Not quite a science yet, but when someone's making something weird, I like to know about it.

Necessity is stronger far than art.

But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.

If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.

What I say is that we're capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response.

While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.

I think we cannot have a double standard. We cannot see our art as different from the reality. We cannot use two different sets of judgment.

[Shanghai Biennale] has been my attitude for as long as I've been practicing art and other cultural-related activities.

In China, we don't have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn't even have a gallery.

I'm most embarrassed at my art shows, even though I don't show it.

One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully.

The singing of sea shanties as working songs at sea is a lost art

I understand that people are afraid. Because I think censorship is about fear. It's just fear being projected onto art.

Art and resistance are great together. That's what art's made for. Look at Vincent van Gogh: He didn't cut off his ear because he was selling well.

Without freedom there is no art.

In art, I think it's not useful to be a professional of the profession. It will not give you something new.

Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, who have made up in their minds to be content with symbols rather than with what they signify, with the elegantly composed recipe in lieu of actual dinner.

Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual.