Quotes About Art

The tensions are always based on financial resources. Something like film is very problematic because it is viewed as an art form and also as an industry with a pure commercial base.

He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own.

In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,--a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought.

Art can do much, but this maxim's most sure/A weak or wounded brain admits no cure.

We have lost the art of public tenderness, these small gestures of wiping and washing; we have forgotten how abjectly the body welcomes a formal touch.

Artists are meant to be madmen, to disturb and shock us.

artists often lie behind on the field long after the art combine, the broad-bladed harvester of informed criticism, has mowed, bailed, and stored the crop.

I am a hobbyist photographer so I relate to the visual arts that way, but Im not a painter.

I do not think there is any question of photography being an art form!

There still is some opposition to it in some museums and art schools, but I think photography has really grown into a mature art form.

Picture-taking is an ensemble art-like theater.

In the '70s it was skateboards, in the '80s it was drugs, in the '90s it was art, and now it's my family.

If you respect the art and you have some talent about you, I'm on your team.

I'm seeking to have an art that is engaged as a way for saying, 'Hurray for unity.

All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.

I know that the arts are important. I'm not denying that, but I can't associate myself with all the claptrap that goes on around it.

To measure up takes skill, but to err is an art.

I always feel that art in general and acting in particular should make the audience a little uncomfortable, to slap them and wake them up.

It's surprising that readers don't see challenging writing as morally hazardous, when it might be pushing the same kinds of boundaries as art does.

If the art of poetry is?the art of making sense of the chaos of human experience, it's not a bad thing to see a lot of chaos.

I think casting a show is an art form in and of itself. We're all so different - the cast is made up partly of real stand-ups, partly of actors, and then partly of just legendary actors.

I was fortunate to be connected with bands who later became pioneers for certain genres of music scenes. And my art went along with them for that ride and became associated with it.

I loved music and art, combining the two seemed like a natural match.

The demarcation between an art house film and an entertainer has blurred, only because a larger section of the audience has accepted such realistic films.