Quotes About Art

I think art is not an ornament or refinement at the fringes of human intelligence, I think it's at the center. It's at the core.

It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone.

Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required.

To me, architecture is an art, naturally, and it isn't architecture unless it's alive. Alive is what art is. If it's not alive, it's dead, and it's not art.

I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.

There are a lot of questions about whether architecture is art. The people who ask that think pretty tract houses are architecture. But that doesn't hold up.

I'm inspired by many things, from landscapes to textiles. Art and architecture always influence my design process.

Little do we find any Phoenician architecture or plastic art at all comparable even to those of Italy, to say nothing of the lands where art was native.

I was always fascinated by graphic art and typography and architecture. And so I was constantly cutting things and making blocks and making buildings out of shoeboxes.

I've always been interested in art, architecture, color.

I think in America there's this free flow between fashion, art, architecture, music and design. In Europe, it's more segregated between those different disciplines, I think.

I've always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.

Women are our most miraculous muse, an enchanted intangibility that encourages all art.

I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history.

I wouldn't want to do an average fashion line. I'd want it to be an amazing piece of art.

We do want to be diverted and be interested and be provoked by popular culture - by art, if we're lucky. And it's amazing how often people have lost sight of this.

When taxidermy is done well it's an amazing piece of art.

I was a huge Muppet fan growing up, but that was the extent of my puppet knowledge. I really loved the art form and the whole Henson universe.

Making sushi is an art, and experience is everything.

Just as there is no substitute for original works of art, there is no substitute for the world of direct sensual experience.

After art college, I got a job as a medical illustrator, and I was pretty good. I had to imagine what was going on in the operations because the photographs just showed a mess.

Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.

Magic touches people in the way great art does. It lets them see the world with new eyes.

To me, success is making a positive difference through art - making art that affects the world and that changes the way people feel about themselves and the world.