Quotes About Art

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Artistic productivity is the capacity for being voluntarily involuntary.

Art inspires me. Looking at art in a museum, listening to music, reading the works of other writers.

We have found a way to bring to millions of people an art that they can understand.

Art's primary social function is to define the communal self, which includes redefining it when the community is changing.

Blest is that government where no art thrives.

Schiaparelli's collaborations with Dali and Cocteau as well as Prada's Fondazione Prada push art and fashion ever closer, in a direct, synergistic, and culturally redefining relationship.

There's always been an ongoing struggle between commerce and art.

There is a balance in between where you can still make art, but it does not have to be insular.

Unlike art which contains a message, wine conveys nothing, it has no intellectual or cognitive content

Theatre critics have no special access to the truth. And there should be no objective truth to art.

Liberal humanists now seem to dominate the fields of art, journalism, and communication, which are powerful and uniquely able to spread anti-Christian thought.

I am inspired by music, travel, great architecture, and good, healthy food. I look for opportunities to learn about history, art, and cooking. When I learn, I grow.

I really admire stand-up, and I think I would have loved to learn how to do it. I think it's terrifying and thrilling. A really cool thing to do. It's a dying art, in a way.

You have to train your mind and your ears, but they're more like athletic skills. So, part of music you just have to learn those things or you can't practice the art.

You always feel like rock critics are frustrated musicians. I envy musicians their ability to live their art and share it with an audience, in the moment.

In a way, art has always been my way of problem-solving, of getting through situations, of finding my response to things, so to imagine doing something else makes me panic a little bit.

When we started Angels Airwaves, we wanted to produce our art on different mediums, but the film was an ambitious one because we actually didn't go into it thinking we could make a big feature film.

When we accept bad art because it's good politics, we're killing the swan to feed the chickens.

But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.

As much as I hate his movies, Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire, and that is that he wants his art to be part of what makes and changes public policy and cultural practice.

I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more.

I wound up studying art and design, got a job at Lonely Planet Publications as a designer, cartographer and illustrator.

If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there's no point in it....for me, every act of the art of solving a mystery.

Anything that reflects the human condition back on humans in the entertainment medium is art.