Quotes About Art

I have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful as you can.

Fashion being the art of those who must purchase notice at some cheaper rate than that of being beautiful, loves to do rash and extravagant things. She must be forever new, or she becomes insipid.

Art collecting has traditionally been the domain of wealthy individuals in search of rewards beyond the purely financial.

Most of the faint intimations of immortality of which we are occasionally aware would seem to arise out of Art or the materials of Art.

Artists are free to push boundaries to make art. But when pushing boundaries is their only aim, the result is usually bad art.

I believe only in art and failure.

Every once in a while I go off to do a movie or a television series and I take my art with me. I can stay in character when I paint.

Sinclair Lewis may be ripe for a revival; his books raise several interesting issues of art and fashion.

I wasnt always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then I was a stay-at-home mom.

When advertising is great, it's transcendent. It's art.

Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.

I'm especially interested in the music of John Cage... I would like to do some experimenting with the relationship between his freeform sound and free-form art.

Movies are the greatest art form the world has come up with yet. If you don't use them to the full extent and you don't give people as much as you possibly can, you're doing a disservice to it.

Pain is not a conduit to art or joy

People enquire as to the craft behind our art and we reply by making references to a patently childish notion.

The ultimate politeness in art consists of speaking only to those who are able to uncover and measure its relationships. Anything else is symbolic, and symbolism is merely transcendental imagery.

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Realism and art cannot live together.

Journalism encourages haste ... and haste is the enemy of art.

I want to be an art-hero - I want to change the form of the novel.

I enjoy all mediums, and I have to say, music is the medium that first made me understand how powerful art could be.

What I hope is I'll eventually be seen as an actual individual, not as some abstraction - an art dealer running a museum.

Art, film, fashion, music are all going on and interacting simultaneously. And L.A. is very receptive to that fusion.

Everybody has a direct view of the person "behind" the art, so there is going to be a certain amount of awareness of who is making songs. But I like paintings where you can see the brush-strokes.