Quotes About Art

I suppose I do believe that the greatest art consoles a wound that it creates, that art can give you the capacity to endure and respond to the pain it forces you to feel. Psychological pain, I mean.

Just because people can express themselves through their art doesn't mean they are great communicators in person.

When it comes to art you can't please everybody but if you please yourself then take pleasure in that.

I am interested in the art. I'm a professional woman

We made an amazing video about Newtown's struggle to figure out what to do with all the letters and art sent to the town.

I've always loved movies, art and clothes.

Being funny is a gift, and, when done well, is an art form.

What does a painter do? You get a painting, you put some intent and passion and emotion into these things, and hope the people will receive it. Same as a playwright. It's art.

Chemistry: that most excellent child of intellect and art.

It's true that what is morbid is highly valued today, and so you may think that I am only joking or that I've devised just one more means of praising Art with the help of irony.

I can't wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it.

Sensation is an element of what I do, and why not? It's not sensational for the sake of being sensational, but it's sensational art... It's like touching skin.

In fact, the first piece of art I ever sold, I paid someone else to make the next one, so I could actually keep going out drinking.

I was brought up Catholic, and I felt the power of art from a very young age - seeing the brutality of all those images of flayed apostles and tortured saints was a pretty strong introduction.

I think that's why art prevails: because it helps people in a fairly intangible, magical way feel more connected to each other.

The key to attempting to create art in some aspect is also knowing that it will turn some people off.

If you're wandering the streets, talking in gibberish, nobody ever asks you to change anything about your art because there's no context for people to look at what you do.

I'm always hiding the books in my closet, and my art's always turned upside down in my drawer.

We will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that's much closer to art and literature than any science.

If you're making art, you are not separate from your brand.

Give honour unto Luke Evangelist; For he it was (the aged legends say) Who first taught Art to fold her hands and pray.

I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, music, but there really isn't hip-hop film. So I was trying to do that.

I hate all that woozy political and psychotherapeutic crap applied to books and art.

Art editors and critics - people like me - have become a courtier class.