Quotes About Art

Every art and every faculty contemplates certain things as its principal objects.

The poster art over the years, art with social critique in it, has always been trying to make that point - that we are larger than they are.

Doing art that has a happy ending, that doesn't seem really corny, is extremely difficult to pull off convincingly.

Art grabs people by their eyeballs, it seduces them. Especially if the picture is very beautiful or very sexy or just really weird, if it has some surreal element in it.

Art without heart is craft.

Art keeps one young, I think, because it keeps one perpetually a beginner, perpetually a child.

I think that, like any art, fashion is about expression. It allows you to express yourself and your identity through what you choose to wear.

I learned how to have a little bit of distance when I explained songs and a little bit of distance when I wrote them. I think this is more interesting any way in art.

A few words about the question of whether photography is art or not: I never understood the question.

I think we [with Riccardo Tisci] share a sensibility about art - we pull from the ancient future.

In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been.

Sometimes people save the best part of themselves for their art.

Making reality real is art's responsibility.

To open up the new, to look back on the old may bring forth like discoveries in the practice of art.

Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.

One of my favorite things about art, especially at a gallery, is hearing people talk about the art. I find it quite amusing.

Art has more ego to it than what I do.

Beerbohm was a genius of the purest kind. He stands at the summit of his art.

But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

You grow and evolve and as you do that, your art hopefully reflects that change and that growth.

Alas! in nature, as in art, we gain only according to our capacity. You cannot put an ocean in a pint pot.

The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.

But who said art has to cost money? And therefore, who says artists have to make money?

I cannot live without art: it excites me, it challenges me, and it leads me to the next thing.