Quotes About Art

You should definitely visit the Louvre, a world-famous art museum where you can view, at close range, the backs of thousands of other tourists trying to see the Mona Lisa.

Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.

Art once made a cult of beauty. Now we have a cult of ugliness instead. This has made art into an elaborate joke, one which by now has ceased to be funny.

Funny songs, that's my ticket. I can't remember when it started or why it started, it's just something that I NEEDED.

Art is so often better at theology than theology is.

Puns are the highest form of literature.

It's funny how something so normal and mundane that you see every day-your body-can be controversial. The shock value is intense. It's like carrying an art piece around with you all the time.

Pain is temporary, film is forever.

I don't know what to say so I'll just say what's in my heart...badoom, badoom, badoom.

He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.

A German singer! I should as soon expect to get pleasure from the neighing of my horse.

Astrology is not an art, it is a disease.

It may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it's also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts.

Art never expresses anything but itself.

He paints for the blind, and we are the blind, and he lets us see for sure what we saw long ago but weren't sure we saw. He paints for the dead, to remind us that - great good God, think of it - we're alive ...

The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.

The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does

Art is I; science is we

The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.

Stupidity is like art. Everyone can do it, but only the truly gifted are masters at it.