Quotes About Art

A lot of the art that was destroyed was painted and created by Jews. A lot of that is gone because that was degenerative art. That's what Hitler was trying to get rid of.

I like the sense of the road passing my eyes. It's always a fascinating experience to come into a new city...the sense of the people changing, the food changing, everything changing, the art.

For fun? Maybe evil is an art form.

When you have the intuition that there is something which is there, but out of the reach of your physical world, art and religion are the only means to get to it.

The art feeds my mind and soul and the job pays my bills. Finding the balance can be a challenge, but I am very fortunate for it.

Color will play no part in the art of future.

You never really know what the director has got in his mind as far as the scene visually and art direction wise.

This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay.

For me, I think [art] exists in a cave. I am in a cave. I have my own editing place, but I'm not powerful enough to amass the resources to keep doing movies every two or three years.

I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.

A mere chronicle of observed events will produce only journalism; combined with a sensitive memory, it can produce art.

There in the midst of the Amazon Jungle, Simon Haskell has cobbled up for himself a replica of an Art Deco salon.

Both art and the artist lack identity and define themselves only through their encounter with each other.

Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism.

On this hapless earth There 's small sincerity of mirth, And laughter oft is but an art To drown the outcry of the heart.

I think you can do anything with comics that you could do in just about any art form.

Book marketing should be a planned process, an art if you will.

We're writers. What do we do? We tell stories. We make up stories. We create art.

fiction and lies are both works of creative art, and creation always reveals the creator.

I was a real art freak when I was a teenager.

An art form requires genius. People of genius are always troublemakers, meaning they start from scratch, demolish accepted norms, and rebuild a new world.

A painting in an interior spreads joy around it by the colors, which calm us.

Creation is the artist's true function; where there is no creation there is no art.

The Barnes Foundation is the only sane place to see art in America.