Quotes About Art

There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme.

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.

Reporter lady: What's that color? John: Hm. I'd call this a color!

It's here, I think, that science, history, and art have something in common: they all depend on metaphor, on the recognition of patterns, on the realization that something is like something else.

Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union. SAMUEL GOLDWYN

These were early days for me in the American culture, and so I wasn't aware that when people are showing you guns, they're not threatening you, it's like they're showing you their art collection. For me, at that point, what he was presenting to me was very challenging.

The greatest challenge of science, its art, lies in asking an important question and framing it in a way that allows it to be broken into manageable pieces, into experiments that can be conducted that ultimately lead to answers.

The greatest challenge of science, its art, lies in asking an important question and framing it in a way that allows it to be broken into manageable pieces, into experiments that can be conducted that ultimately lead to answers. To do this requires a certain kind of genius, one that probes vertically and sees horizontally.

Sometimes in a nervous frenzy I just fling words as if I were flinging mud at a wall. Blurt out, heave out, babble out something—anything—as a first draft.

The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories - those with talent are fed in at one end, and they come out as mechanical painting machines.

It interests me tremendously to make copies... I started it by chance and I find it teaches me things.

Everything, even the most ordinary daily affair, is enriched by the lessons that can be gleaned from art.

Collectors are paying for our education by purchasing our art.

Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.

Artists of my generation were not educated. We were not given the equipment because it was generally believed to be irrelevant.

An education not founded on Art will never succeed.

As a person who grew up in a border town, it is important to me that I use my education and my art to tell human stories of an otherwise neglected and marginalized community.

American art, like the American language and American education, was as far as possible sexless.

My education was an education by movies.

I don't want to do the type of writing where I recite biography, parentage and education. I want to rise up from the words on the page and do something, hurt someone.

The need for the creation of collective art and ritual on a nonclerical basis is at least as important as literacy and higher education.

I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.

After high school I went to the San Francisco Art Institute, and I began a formalized art education where we went through the history of art but we also went through the art of my contemporaries.

In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.