Quotes About Art

I studied art just short of the level where you can earn a degree.

As I grew older, I actually was prepared to go into fine arts school and do a degree. That was what I was actually settled upon when I was offered a record deal.

The only really effective apologia for Christianity comes down to two arguments, namely, the saints the Church has produced, and the art which has grown in her womb.

Art has a unique capacity to take one or other facet of the message and translate it into colors, shapes and sounds which nourish the intuition of those who look and listen.

I'd say, if you want to be an artist, start with your art; start with making great music and it will, hopefully, eventually cut through all of the nonsense that is out there.

Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.

The value of art lies in its power to increase our moral force or establish its heightening influence.

I don't know a single collector or museum director who says: 'Oh, he's on a list, so I think I'll buy something of his.' The people who buy my art put a little more thought into it than that.

It is not easy to recover an art when once lost.

And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks if this be joy.

Winner gave me my bread and Russell gave me my art.

I see films in theaters, and I enjoy films. I enjoy the art of storytelling, and the different ways to tell them.

Everybody has some talents - we all have an art side and some talent - but you have some areas where you are better than others. My area is acting, I guess. I hope.

I wanted to represent the world as a temporary art installation continuously changing. I wanted to consider it unreal and unfinished, judge and transform it, a possibility that only art gives us.

You have to be able to use it [art] to effect change in the community. That's what gives the film and the music an impactful legacy.

I don't take art as seriously as politics.

A movie studio is the best toy a boy ever had.

In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never taste them.

Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.

It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

Art should never be popular.

Politics is not a science, as the professors are apt to suppose. It is an art.

Belief of some sort is the lifeblood of Art.

Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in peoples minds with emotion.