Quotes About Art

A great artist can change society because of the entertaining and mesmerizing quality of his or her art.

Art should look like art, trees and flowers and people, not weird shapes and splotches of color all smeared together.

Headline writing is an art form.

As art reveals the artist more than the world, so you see yourself and what you are not in the mirror of another culture.

We go for our own reality. I remember some of our guys saying it is way harder to make stylized art directed explosions of jade rather than a regular explosion of shrapnel.

I'm always trying to bring unusual content to a different audience - a non-art-world audience.

My plan was to never get married. I was going to be an art monster instead.

Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isn't any good. But everyone has a different opinion about which 85 percent is bad. That in turn creates fantastically unstable interplay and argument.

All art comes from other art, and all immigrants come from other places.

Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness.

The Met is not only the finest encyclopedic museum of art in the United States; it is arguably the finest anywhere.

Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good.

I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste.

To me, the building [of Museum of Arts and Design]now looks like a lovely jewel box, and the tiled façade reminds me of a heat shield.

Craft is not a category; it's a means. The folks running the museum [Museum of Arts and Design]are sharp, and they know this, but they are in a bind.

I realized the structure in a collection is how they're put together. Structuring the collection became the art of it for me. Because the stories had all been written.

You don't have to go to New York and you don't have to go to LA or London. Go somewhere cheap. Go somewhere with free art museums and then just go to art museums.

Performance became part of my art in a way - expressing things and emotion.

I would categorize my books as literature, and I hope that is how they would be consumed. The books do not rely on the artwork to be understood, but I need my art practice to write them.

I haven't made art about Israel. There's a covert subtext of Jewish identity in my artwork.

Cats are anthropomorphised in art because they are so laid back that you automatically attribute human thoughts and feelings to them.

Clothing is viral, impermanent in a way that public art cannot be. So I like thinking of how corporate-created clothing can be seen as a form of public art.

Unlike sciences, literature as art relies on societal acceptance of a certain vocabulary.

I worked in an art gallery for a few years, doing administrative assistance stuff, and it exposed me to what the whole world of art dealers and the art market was about.