Quotes About Art

MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them.

Great emotion always tends to become rhythmic, and out of that tendency the forms of art have been evolved. Art becomes artificial only when the forms take precedence over the emotion.

Some jobs you do - maybe you don't - are jobs that pay mortgages and some are art and I don't care about not being paid on those.

I've never really dreamed of owning a home. I don't think you go into the arts and also dream of owning a home.

There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.

To be able to do art, it was a luxury to me.

I truly believe the art's larger than the artist. Who cares about John Steinbeck? I care about the Joad family.

An artist cannot get along without a public; and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.

Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship.

Our art culture makes no attempt to search the past for precedents, but transforms the entire past into a sequence of provisional responses to a problem that remains intact.

A large share of our art heritage is now derived from peoples whose idea of art was quite other than ours, and even from peoples to whom the very idea of art meant nothing.

Only the poor can create art.

I like to dress up but I'm not so concerned with looking very sexy, it's really more the art of dressing.

The history of modern culture is a history of popular entertainments evolving into art.

One of my goals as a professor of English is to teach students to recognize and think critically about what makes something art.

Art you can flush down the loo means nothing to me, even were the loo to be selected by Marcel Duchamp

Interviewing is not a democratic art.

A living museum must surely see itself as a locus of argument. A breathing art institution is not a lockup but a moveable feast.

It's art that's taught me to think and to write.

There's a side that I want to do just like really retarded arty films … like parody, pretentious art films that kind of are supposed to have some deep meaning.

If you're someone who's making film or TV or music, or any kind of art form now, there's a billion outlets and they all have an opinion.

I'm for mechanical art. When I took up silk screening, it was to more fully exploit the preconceived image through the commercial techniques of multiple reproduction.

Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted space is any space that has art in it.

Photography has been a passion of mine since I was 15. After my kids were born I found myself incorporating my photography into different art endeavors and from there it just blossomed.