Quotes About Art

I think about art a lot only in two contexts. One is narrative... The other thing that I'm interested in, which is tangential, but not unrelated... All art to me is about problem solving.

Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.

Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable.

The moral pleasure in art, as well as the moral service that art performs, consists in the intelligent gratification of consciousness.

Transparence is the highest, most liberating value in art - and in criticism - today. Transparence means experiencing the luminousness of the thing in itself, of things being what they are.

In a culture whose already classical dilemma is the hypertrophy of the intellect at the expense of energy and sensual capability, interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.

Self-exposure is commendable in art only when it is of a quality and complexity that allows other people to learn about themselves from it.

As industrialization provided social uses for the operations of the photographer, so the reaction against these uses reinforced the self-consciousness of photography-as-art.

Is it conceivable that mysticism is a mark of inadequate art?

Is there no room for art in the spoken language? What is the use of creating an unnatural language to the exclusion of the natural one?

Every artist paints his Madonna according to his own pre-conceived ideas.

In art, interest must be centred on the principal theme.

The sculptor, the painter the musician the dancer, or any artist, if he can first obtain celebrate in Paris, acquires very easily the esteem and eulogy of other countries.

I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that, of the 20th Century. It's been film. It's the 20th Century's real art form.

In fact, every day I'll read a chapter of some art book. I don't know why. It's just a habit.

The internet has surrounded television and turned television into an art form.

I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.

There's danger in glorifying negative emotions as fuel for art.

As I discovered music, especially Rock 'n Roll, new territory was opened to me. I was lured by the unbridled rhythm of this art form. It was like gasoline on the fire of my youthful spirit.

There are films that can only be made in a specific country but that have a wider meaning. I think that's true of any art form.

The internet is intimate. Everybody collects the art on the internet, everybody owns the art and enjoys it only for their self, completely selfishly.

Art was always my thing. I had an art scholarship before I had a football scholarship. I'm a left-handed, right-brained, painting-drawing guy. That was always my skill.

Advertising and art are getting all mixed up. I think some of the most exciting pieces of TV are the commercials.

Jazz is the false liquidation of art - instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.