Quotes About Art

All science touches on art; all art has its scientific side.

Fairs are beneath the dignity of art. To stand there in a booth and hawk your wares - it is just not how you sell art.

Theater is a very changeable art. It responds to the moment in history the way the newspaper does, and there's no predicting what to come up with next.

We should comfort ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages-stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us.

Take a quart of nature, boil it down to a pint, and the residue is art.

It sounds kind of flighty, filmmaker-y, but I believe films are a piece of art. They are meant to be what they're meant to be, and sometimes the artist is informed by the film of what it needs to be.

I know that sounds a little bit corny, but I've found some solace in that. I hope art can continue to do that for people, I really do.

Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.

I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don't do that so much anymore.

Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.

You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.

The Church [in the 14th century] gave ceremony and dignity to lives that had little of either. It was the source of beauty and art to which all had some access and which many helped to create.

Art transcends politics this weekend.

The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.

I'm really into California art from the '60s.

The amount which cannot be harnessed and domesticated, but insists on its own form of activity rather than one which is offered ready made, is the energy used for the creation of art.

But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.

there is no politically neutral art.

There is still some art in pop music. But it can't happen if you're not inspired.

It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.

Art hath an enemy call'd ignorance .

To me one of the amazing technologies of writing is the way it can listen in on thoughts. I don't feel that that's natural to other art forms in the same way.

I paint digitally now. A pity, in some ways, as the biggest price one pays is that you no longer have a finished piece of physical art to hang on a wall. I miss that terribly.

Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.