Quotes About Art

The purpose of subject matter is to veil technique. The great artist uses the cloak of resemblance to hide the means.

One of the great things about songwrighting; it's not an intellectual experience

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

For goodness sakes, beware of curls… It is a great art to do them so that the girls not only look modern - but do not suddenly look very vulgar.

Masterpieces are no more than the shipwrecked flotsam of great minds.

In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.

The experiential test of whether this art is great or good, or minor or abysmal is the effect it has on your own sense of the world and of yourself. Great art changes you.

All truly great art is propaganda.

Great art changes you.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

Great art comes from great artists. There's a bunch of people that are hurt that still couldn't have made the album that was super-polarizing and redefined the sound of radio.

I started studying as an artist, but I got fed up with the fact that you can paint terrible pictures and if you explain them in an erudite way it's called great art. I thought this was rubbish.

Great art is clear thinking about mixed feelings.

Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.

Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.

There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.

The interpretation of dreams is a great art.

Is it the obligation of great art to be continually interesting? I think not.

Great art direction is NOT the same thing as great film direction!

All great art ... creates in the beholder not self-satisfacti on but wonder and awe. Its great liberation is to lift us out of ourselves.

A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.