Quotes About Art

But maybe that's how it is with art. You suffer, and in the end, everyone thinks it's cool.

The notes I can handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes-ah, that is where the art resides.

Act of giving something to others is an art of flowering your heart.

The merging of characteristics between different species creates a very powerful language, one that I love to explore through my art, enabling me to tap into the unconscious.

Indeed, the future is signalled in the past, but time has to pass to see it. Art is the witness.BLOG post-Perpetual Beginning-November 14 2011

Because that's what a comic is, ultimately: a collection of pages. It's not a flatpanel or a touchscreen, even though that's where it might eventually be displayed. It's a page.

I'm completely aware of Matisse and what he said, that painters must begin by cutting out their tongues.

Degas is one of the very few painters who have given the floor its true importance.

The Fine Arts are five in number: Painting, Music, Poetry, Sculpture, and Architecture--whereof the principle branch is Confectionery.

To talk of a modern work of art enduring is sillier than talking of the eternal values of Standard Oil.

Original art emanates in the mind ... and lessons society's confusion from self indulgence, avarice and greed to trust, hope and love.

Art is long, life is short.

If you judge art by its cover, you efface the very essence of it

A pianist is a painter of music

High culture is paranoid about sentiment, but human beings are intensely sentimental. And if art doesn't speak language that's acceptable to people, it relegates itself to obscurity.

If you judge art be its cover, you efface the very essence of it

That's what attracts us to serious paintings, I think: that shortfall, which we might call "personality", or maybe even "pain".

Seeing beautiful art is like feeling kisses from angels all over your face.

I never paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.

We suicide ourselves for our own survival. Is there any hope of dipping back into the past and circling round it like you can in art?

Creating is like the oxygen in my air.

You want to feel that you belong to something higher, to something even beyond this universe, then go to the opera!

What is more boundless than imagination? What is more primordial than the art of creation? To create and be creative is perhaps our most essential nature.

The value is not in the art, whether there are more artists or less artists, the value depends on it.