Quotes About Art

Art doesn't feed me or fill the void when I am not working. If I haven't worked for six months, I can't paint.

I'll walk through fire to do what I do because the movie business, when it's right, is the coolest art form ever invented.

Where there's liberty, art succeeds.

Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty.

You have to be at the forefront of culture to create art, which they call "product," and Hollywood is not. It's this very old business model, which I think is dying in a lot of ways.

Culture is defined, really, by the artists who record what the everyday experience is like and then translate it to a common piece of art that all people can respond and relate to.

A number of artists have done things with Mickey Mouse - including Claes Oldenburg and Andy Warhol. He's such an American symbol, and such an anti-art symbol.

I'll be honest, I worry sometimes about what I've done. I have tied my whole person to my art and, whatever it takes to get that hook, I will go there and do it.

I'm not intelligent enough to be a doctor, and kind of hands down you can't argue with the worth of that. But I don't really have an opinion about the worth of making art.

Agreeing on the "why" takes all the romance out of everything, takes all the seduction. Seduction used to be an art. Now of course it's brutish and it's predatory and it's bad.

The Art Snob will stand back from a picture at some distance, his head cocked slightly to one side

Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form.

If a nonartist teaches a subject called art, it is nonart.

As a matter of history great developments in art have often been remarkably separate from religious motivation and use.

Photography is art when it's used by an artist.

I'm more concerned about helping humanity through my art

Do lifelong artists pay a price for having chosen to make art? Of course. Everyone pays the price for his or her choices.

I believe in the art of literature, I believe in freedom of the imagination, I believe in the kind of liberties that we enjoy in these lucky countries of the world.

Music is an immediate art; it's always happening right now.

[Rewriting is] a whole other art form; it's about craftsmanship.

I am surprisingly optimistic, though lately that's been hard to maintain. Art and slow, small, close gestures help remind me of my optimism.

I was a kid who liked art and theater and dance and music, but if you lived in Harlem, high culture was somewhere else, and it wasn't black.

I think a lot of actors, comedians, musicians, artists are drawn to this world, because you're allowed to excavate whatever it is that you're struggling with, and hopefully turn it into art.

The costume designer designing clothes that helped the comedy in The Proposal, that sold the character. Each and every detail was so perfectly thought of, what wouldn't be here? That's a lost art.