Quotes About Art

Making art was really about the problem of the soul, of losing it. It was a technique for inhabiting the world. For not dissolving into it.

I am interested in risk, in art as well as in the realm of politics.

I want to create amazing art and content that inspires people to want to be the best versions of themselves everyday, and never let anyone (even themselves) hold them back.

Anytime you have to sacrifice your art, or integrity, it's a bad deal, no matter what they're offering.

Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision.

Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.

It depends little on the object, much on the mood, in art.

I have heard that stiff people lose something of their awkwardness under high ceilings, and in spacious halls. I think, sculptureand painting have an effect to teach us manners, and abolish hurry.

But in every constitution some large degree of animal vigor is necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the art.

Art and propaganda have this much connection, that if a propaganda makes art impossible, it is clearly damned.

The idea of experimenting with machines to create art was always something I tinkered with.

I am very close with my parents, they are very amazing, so loving, so cool, and really valued art.

You can take art, you can have a baby, you can have a career.

My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing.

Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.

Music truely has to all other arts the same relation as religion to the church.

Great sci-fi has never shied from tackling the Big Questions, though really great sci-fi never forgets to entertain us along the way. Shock and awe applies to art, as well.

I think Hollywood's gotten more reactionary and conservative over the years, because there's no longer art in Hollywood. Art suffers in Hollywood.

Even if it's such a lowly art as TV, you've got to get stuff off your chest, because that's what makes something different and original, your particular take on stuff.

There is a lot of snobbery towards pop music, to me and pop in general - it's kind of a despised art form.

Silence is, after all, the context for the deepest appreciation of art: the only important evaluations are finally, personal, interior ones.

Henry James proposed asking of art three modest and appropriate questions: What is the artist trying to do? Does he do it? Was it worth doing?

I've had it-the agencies, the winking, the networks, the ratings. Anyone who thinks TV is an art medium is crazy-it's an advertising medium.