Quotes About Art

The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.

I have never felt a placard and a poem are in any way similar.

If you come across an American artist right now who has no political opinions or is afraid of talking politics, be very concerned.

Art -- the fresh feeling, new harmony, the transforming magic which by means of myth brings back the scattered distracted soul from its modern chaos -- art, not politics, is the remedy.

I don't like to talk about things where you're going to gt one side or the other unhappy. My music has no politics.

Folk art has never been much about politics; it's about action and utility.

I don't care much about politics. That kind of witchcraft I stay away from because people end up dead. I'd rather die for music.

The last thing I wanted to do was put politics into my music... because music was my escape.

Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.

I don't think that good politics ever excuse a bad song.

I would always consider myself to be political with a small "p," although it makes me mad when people say politics should be kept out of music.

The conflict between art and politics... cannot and must not be solved.

A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg,.. is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.

I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.

To construct a proper privacy, making it a privilege rather than a burden, we first need to construct a community-love, family, politics, art.

There are ways in which art can have a longer reach than politics.

Isadore [Duncan], who had an un-American genius for art, for organizing love, maternity, politics and pedagogy on a great personal scale, had also an un-American genius for grandeur.

I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art.

The only thing worse than a silly politician analyzing art is a silly artist analyzing politics

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design, or architecture. I just wanted to create something.

I photograph from the heart. I adore little babies and I think that shows. My images are really very positive, very simple, and from the heart. Babies speak a universal language.

I believe photography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief.