Quotes About Art

One day I would like to have my own art show.

When studio art started being seen as important, I joined Colab, and then I became very involved.

Political art never goes away. I started watching The West Wing show recently and I'm actually learning about how the government works in a way. It's kind of embarrassing.

Art doesn't have the stench of a community program. It's transcendent. It is transcendent of morality and transcendent of political position. It is absolutely free. It is the community center.

I went to school for fine art. I'm a decent housepainter, but I'm a really good fine art painter.

You go in and record and sing them some and you go back in and rerecord and sing them some more. That's kind of how I did this album [The Art of Elegance].

People should practice an art in order to make their souls grow and not to make money or become famous. Paint a picture. Write.

Money is completely boring to me. It means nothing, except it feeds my art. Every penny I make goes back into the Haus of GaGa. My Haus of GaGa is something like Andy Warhol's Factory.

Any idealism is a proper subject for art.

Art has a prophetic role, denouncing the culture it lays bare.

What I'm most fascinated by is the ability of art to induce changes, but remain grounded solidly in its art practice.

I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater.

As someone who has been asked to ask David Lynch what his movies mean for 25 years, I'm very careful about asking artists what their art means.

There's huge amounts of nonsense that goes with everything surrounding music and art. All the things you have to do promote yourself - there's huge amounts of nonsense.

When I see a beautiful piece of art, it inspires me to be creative.

I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.

Sometimes it's good to get mad, sometimes it clarifies where we stand. I think that art has the ability to challenge and push, and that's great. That's better than great... it's necessary.

It's wonderful that nothing you write is ever going to be as beautiful as what's in your head, because that gap is where the art can enter and begin to stretch its limbs.

Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.

I rarely listen to the music for the sheer pleasure. I'm listening for the tool, I'm listening for the instrument, I'm listening for the art.

There are times when quantity is at least as important as quality in learning an art.

I'm so in awe of what visual artists do and I do understand the differences of what visual artists do. I have a small art collection I hope to expand.

But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple.

All art has this characteristic-it unites people.