Quotes About Art

Medicine is magical and magical is art, the boy in the bubble, and the baby with the baboon heart.

It is a depressing fact that Americans tend to confuse morality and art (to the detriment of both) and that, among the educated, morality tends to mean social consciousness.

Movies are a combination of art and mass medium, but television is so single in its purpose-selling-that it operates without that painful, poignant mixture of aspiration and effort and compromise.

Television as we have it isn't an art form - it's a piece of furniture that is good for a few things.

There is, in any art, a tendency to turn one's own preferences into a monomaniac theory.

I think that the most exciting thing is to find a tool, like an art, with an opportunity to share. Real roots come from everywhere in the world. Why call is congress? Because it is a congress.

I'm really happy with all the art that was inspired by religion, and I think I'd be tickled to little tiny pieces if art in the future was inspired by other things.

The nice thing about growing up in that kind of environment is you were exposed to so much -- music, plays, art exhibits, rock concerts.

Fashion is the art of making the unimportant indispensable.

The problem with architecture is it goes with the territory, because it's an applied art and because you're messing about with people and their environment.

An old art spreading rumours about / Paradise, it begs outside the gates / Of the gods: the active gods come out.

I always say perseverance is nine-tenths of any art — not that it's much help to be nine-tenths an artist, of course.

With art criticism it's difficult to discuss beauty, to assess it, because there's always the possibility that we're insane.

Minimalism itself had a very strong iconoclast impulse. You think of the sixties as loose and liberated, but in art it was actually quite the contrary.

There's art that I would readily buy if I could afford it, and enjoy, but would never write about because it doesn't seem significant.

I rarely do autograph shows. Maybe two or three a year. Just to keep my price up. Also I've got too much other stuff to do. I have to teach Renaissance art.

Veteran art creates a meeting place between veterans and civilians, or simply between veterans with different experiences.

The canvas is a court where the artist is prosecutor, defendant, jury and judge. Art without a trial disappears at a glance.

I got a book token for Christmas and exchanged it for a book called A History of Art, and that book (which I still have-battered and falling to pieces) became more precious to me than any Bible.

Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism!

In every art the desire to practice it precedes both the full ability to do so and the possession of something worthwhile to express by its means.

He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Photography has always been a struggle for me to take seriously as an art form.

Nature without exercise is a seed shut up in a pod, and art without practice is nothing.