Quotes About Art

Art is solving problems that cannot be formulated before they have been solved. The shaping of the question is part of the answer.

We suffered for our art. You have to suffer for our art as well!

If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Take lights and deform them as brutally as you can.

Anything that is not necessary to the painting damages it." Henri Matisse

Art is a picture of the spirit.

There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph, or a painting.

This place is alive, " Sunni said in wonder. "Things are moving. Inside a painting.

He has no talent at all, that boy! You, who are his friend, tell him, please, to give up painting.–--Manet to Monet, on Renoir---

It comforted him because it could not be called suffering if it was a sign of Art.

An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear.

Art is nothing more than creating an emotion in your own form.

He wrote me a note to say we would create art together and we would make it, with or without the rest of the world.

Art does not reproduce what is visible, it makes things visible.

You know one thing that Mr. Powell taught me? He taught me that sometimes, art can make you forget everything else all around you. That's what are can do.

I think that's what art is: art is communication made in the hope that interesting miscommunications will arise.

I looked on astounded as from his ordinary life he made his art. We were both ordinary men, he and I. Yet from the ordinary he created Legends--and I from Legends created only the ordinary!

The Baron told her that only art meant anything.

Nothing is new anymore. We're living in a post-everything society and "art" itself has become satire.

While art should never become exclusionary and elitist, any culture which fails to support its artists is only contributing to its own impoverishment. (Beyond Religion, p. 122)

Concentrate on a single feature – as, build all toward one eye – make all lines lead toward that eye. (Robert Henri)

Magic is the stunning art of surprising your audience, so that nothing else surprises them.

However, as words become particularized, and as men begin - in however small a way - to use them in personal, arbitrary ways, so their transformation into art begins.

This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.