Quotes About Art

When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive.

Above all, the listener should be able to understand the poem or the song, not be forced to unravel a complicated, self-indulgent puzzle. Offer your art up to the whole world, not just an elite few.

Offer your art up to the whole world, not just an elite few.

Martial arts are art forms and require a great deal of discipline and dedication. I so admire people who focus their lives on it, because it's not an easy thing to do.

Japanimation is a whole different art form.

My guitar player calls the process of writing lyrics based on another story, "filling up the well" when you can get inspiration from other people's art without stealing, more being influenced by it.

Whether we know it or not, we are all in a quest after the Great Companion. All study, all art, all music, all literature, all government, all industry are in essence a search after the Infinite.

I knew what infinity was. Being a previous art student, I knew about some art concepts.

I have not intended to denigrate or hurt the beliefs of anyone through my art.

That's what New York is like - you can't have real art happen in an institution because rich people can make the world stop. The stuff on the street is a lot more interesting.

It's just way more fun making art, growing, grinding for a fan base, and traveling the world with a friend.

Art should communicate with as many people as possible.

If it's bad art, it's bad religion, no matter how pious the subject.

All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs.

A semi-starved nation can have neither religion nor art nor organization.

Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.

Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for nonviolence.

All true art must help the soul to realize its inner self.

The art that is in the machine-made article, appeals only to the eye; the art in Khadi appeals first to the heart and then to the eye.

Sculpture may be almost anything: a monument, a statue, an old coin, a bas-relief, a portrait bust, a lifelong struggle against heavy odds.

In literary and art criticism there are two criteria, the political and the artistic.

I've been very fortunate in my art career. It's something I would never have expected.

My main influence are the other members of the Royal Art Lodge, we've drawn together enough that we can't help but influence each other.

There's nothing like drawing a thing to make you really see it.