Quotes About Art

I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it.

It's really, really hard to make it as a fine-art photographer exclusively.

Wine pricing is an art - like painting.

There's art that I think is pretty silly, but it doesn't get under my skin like it used to.

Money issue looms so large in art now. And it has absolutely nothing to do with art.

I wanted to make a traditional record that had a lot of art and showed my vulnerable side and showed things I'm passionate about.

I consider myself a Chicagoan. I came here to study at the Art Institute in 1951 when I was 18 years old, and I've been here ever since. I still think Chicago is the best city in the country.

Mozart is a human incarnation of the divine force of creation.

There is no patriotic art.

We talk too much. We should talk less and draw more.

Art rests on a kind of religious sense, on a deep, steadfast earnestness; and on this account it unites so readily with religion.

He who possesses science and art, Possesses religion as well; He who possesses neither of these, Had better have religion.

It's easier and sociabler to talk technique than it is to make art.

There has never been a boy painter, nor can there be. The art requires a long apprenticeship, being mechanical, as well as intellectual.

I think art can reflect tragedy.

I wonder whether there is such a thing as critical art. I suppose there are portraits of people who could destroy you.

If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist.

A mathematical point is the most indivisble and unique thing which art can present.

We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry; and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible.

I was told I was talented when I applied to Falmouth School of Art and that I should consider skipping the course and proceeding directly to degree level.

I feel like I've gotten to the point where when I get tired of making art I can make a smooth transition into making music and vice versa. There is always something to do.

Our thoughts, our language, are always at a distance from whatever they're trying to describe. We have other kinds of languages, like mathematics, like music, like art, but there's always that gap.

Art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstone of our judgement.

The dreariest spot in all the land to Death they set apart; with scanty grace from Nature's hand, and none from that of Art.