Quotes About Art

Galleries are frightening places, places of evaluation, of judgement.

There is the satisfaction of being able to look at the image without flinching. There is the pleasure of flinching.

The canvas is the door to another dimension. The paintbrush is the key.

The visual arts will one day be king. The pop stars and celebrities soon to be forgotten.

Photography is a Passion Not a Hobby!

Photography is an itch that wont go away. No matter how much you scratch it.

Art corrupts. Absolute art corrupts absolutely. Please corrupt me absolutely.

Painting calmed the chaos that shook my soul.

Make art and live simply.

There are no greater or lesser arts, only greater or lesser artists.

If you wish to make good art, then you must believe you already do. Otherwise, you will never be good enough.

Before, I could only guess oh who I was. Now, thanks to my art, I know who I am.

Thanks to my art, I now know who I am.

He showed videotape of himself committing acts of self-violence and informing news crews that he had been assaulted by a marauding mob of irate art historians.

With the manipulation of abstract symbols, an artist can send you information without sound, change your feelings and, sometimes, even beliefs. Artists convey the unspeakable. Artists inspire.

It seems shelving is an art, like everything else. I decide to do it exceptionally well.

. . . it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn't touch.

The scent of flowers is the glory of gardens and the scent of art is the glory of Paris!

My child has to be an artist, because conceiving her will be the best artmy body has ever accommodated.

Kenji Mizoguchi is to the cinema what Bach is to music, Cervantes is to literature, Shakespeare is to theatre, Titian is to painting: the very greatest.

I think it takes much greater courage to create things to be gone than to create things that will remain

(Ars longa vita brevis.) Art is long life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.

A work of art cannot be satisfied with being a representation it should be a presentation.

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in memorable form - or else it is not art.