Quotes About Art

I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.

I want to give my compliments to Australia. Ever since your government paid a few million dollars for a Jackson Pollack painting, I figure that it must be a marvellous country

There can be no freedom in art and literature where the government determines who shall create them.

The powers that be are trying to meld, shape, and corral the culture of hip-hop into another speaking voice for the government.

The Spiral Gallery may happen, too. It is not dependent on government funding.

I once wrote a song so beautiful that I myself couldn't sing it. It's called Plastic Government Cheese Swan, and it's about how the world is plastic and full of government cheese swans.

I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art.

Learn to trust yourself. That's very vital. ... Just stand with yourself. Remember, in his lifetime, Van Gogh sold only two paintings. I personally sold even fewer.

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.

Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature.

Great design is serious, not solemn

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does.

To do the right thing at the right season is a great art.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.

Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.

I think the whole, like, cultural diversity and the arty side of London is really, really great. And how it's so historic as well.

Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

All great music is contemporary. If it's still alive and kicking, then it's contemporary. If it fades away, it was a period piece. It had its moment, and that was it.

The great art of life is how to turn the surplus life of the soul into life for the body.

Great art has dreadful manners. The greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed in short order to re-arrange your reality.