Quotes About Art

shocked to realize how much vitality is required simply to support our primitive requirements, we wonder, bewildered, where Art fits in.

Art, if it is art, will develop in whatever circumstances it is placed.

The things that I look at include Renaissance art. I'm obsessed with churches and paintings of saints.

War is not at all such a difficult art as people think. . . . In reality it would seem that he is vanquished who is afraid of his adversary and the the whole secret lies in that.

The art of land warfare is an art of genius, of inspiration. On the sea nothing is genius or inspiration; everything is positive or empiric.

I realize that I live in the same environment that I did when I was a kid, but with less junk and better art.

All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.

I had danced when I was younger, until I was about 12, and I always idealized it, as most young girls do, as the most beautiful art. It's an expression without words.

I enjoy the art, and I enjoy drawing. I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book.

Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials. Using modernist techniques, you get more control, and that allows you to be more artistic, not less!

It doesn't matter what it is, it doesn't matter if you have training or a background in it. Just create something, and lend a piece of yourself to that art.

The highest triumph of art, is the truest presentation of nature.

I deal with emotional pain through therapy, writing, therapy in music. I think emotional pain is best dealt with when you use art to express it.

Music is the sole art which evokes nostalgia for the future.

Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable.

The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of

Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes. Frigidaires are perfect. Beauty limps. My frigidaire has had to be replaced.

I am fascinated a) by transgressive art and b) what happens beyond the boundaries.

There may be a parallel between woodcuts and radio; radio plays are a living art form everywhere except the USA.

I don't care about my "impact" - I only care about the theater as an art form and criticism as an act of writing.

Making art for me is not fun in the sense of la, la, la, la, but it's something that I find very absorbing and very satisfying.

I will say that art may well be the only thing that lasts, so I guess it's worth trying.

Art was always for me an escape and a way to relate to the world around me.

The quest for the next key art awards begins with tomorrow's hangover