Quotes About Art

If anything, I have witnessed the ways my art travels, or is rendered more accessible, when sanctioned by or connected to white artists.

As a brown artist, I have mixed feelings about my relationship to art and my "responsibilities" post-Trump.

I have always considered the aesthetic of a project, including press photos, as a means to further the message of the art itself.

Chess problems demand from the composer the same virtues that characterize all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid insincerity

I see nothing for the treatment of my misery but the melancholy and very local palliative of articulate art.

I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art. And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita.

It's impossible to represent a saint [in Art]. It becomes boring. Perhaps because he is, like the Saturday Evening Post people, inthe position of having almost infinitely free will.

When one looks into the window of a store which sells devotional art objects, one can't help wishing the iconoclasts had won.

Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, depreciating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room.

If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one.

If we see an object as a bowl, it may inhibit seeing it as craft, just as seeing it as craft might inhibit seeing it as art. See first; name later.

Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired.

People don't buy lady art.

The Painter who seeks popularity in Art closes the door upon his own genius.

I think some of the musicians are more like punk rock musicians. It's like an art as opposed to being a musician. It's definitely more radical psychedelic bands, more than anything.

An art that heals and protects its subject is a geography of scars.

By translating their inner turmoil or understanding into art, artists challenge the accepted notions of reality and create new ones.

As far as I can see, the history of experimental art in the twentieth century is intimately bound up with the experience of intoxification.

The ignorant Insults of Individuals will not hinder me from doing my duty to my Art

What has reason to do with the art of painting?

Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every abstract form, from all that is of the brain only.

How can the arts overcome the slow dying of men's hearts that we call progress ?

When we are high and airy hundreds say That if we hold that flight they'll leave the place, While those same hundreds mock another day Because we have made our art of common things.

The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by human art.