Quotes About Art

Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again within himself and expresses it by certain external signs.

Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this.

In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the conception of art has been based on the conception of beauty.

How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains.

. . . rock and roll, as I see it, is the ultimate populist art form, democracy in action, because it's true: anybody can do it.

The recent extraordinary discovery in Photography, as applied in the operations of the mind, has reduced the art of novel-writing to the merest mechanical labour.

As an artist, it's been clear that the price of art has nothing to do with you, it has to do with an idea of what the market will tolerate.

Our jobs as artists is to make sure our art tells a real story and let people see themselves in these characters. It's about having a conversation about being better people.

Hair is just one way of expressing ourselves. We express ourselves through how we dress or through tattoos or body art or piercings or cosmetic surgery.

Immature ists imitate. Mature ists steal.

Ah, but art and trouble go hand in hand. If you cannot be troubled to create art from your heart, then your art will never trouble the heart of others.

I do think that it is one of the eternal questions about art, though - is all art intrinsically selfish?

Timing has a lot to with art.

The nice thing about piracy is, it allows the public to get independent art, to get a variety of music and movies.

A gentleman has ease without familiarity, is respectful without meanness; genteel without affectation, insinuating without seeming art.

The ordinary is ultimately what moves us most deeply. It's what touches us, and it's what we most recognize, in great moments of art.

Buechner is a worthy member of the great prose stylists: Pascal, Newman, and Merton, who have harnessed their art to a passionate religious faith.

Stand-up is probably the most solo performance in art.

Prig and philistine, Ph.D. and C.P.A., despot of English 218c and big shot of the Kiwanis Club-how much, at bottom, they both hate Art, and how hard it is to know which of them hates it the more.

I think our sensibility is not modernist anymore, that is, sensibility of people who are interested in art and literature.

My wife and I are art collectors and architectural crazies.

True revolutions in art restore more than they destroy.

All art, in spite of the struggles of some critics to prove otherwise, is based on emotion and projects emotion.

I always give money to a sidewalk con if the story is a good one, even if I don't believe a word of it. Art deserves to get paid.