Quotes About Art

Clothing is always a tool that helps me take a picture. But it's never about the clothing.

Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people's plates.

You are an artist, I am an artist, all the people around you and me are artists. Don't try to hide your scars, highlight them with the brush and you'll become an attractive piece of art

I was not out to paint beautiful pictures even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth.

After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture.

How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?

To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.

Art gives life to what history killed. Art gives voice to what history denied, silenced, or persecuted. Art brings truth to the lies of history.

An artist should know art history. Shock value only lasts so long.

Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.

History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.

A vital film that needed to be made at this point in history and has been made magnificently.

There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.

Theatre is not supposed to represent psychology but passions, which is totally different. Its role is to represent the soul's different emotional states, and those of the mind, the world history.

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.

Beauty is the product of the dominant ideology. (Thus when ideology changes, the ideal body follows.) We can see that in the history of art.

Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material.

If you learn music, you'll learn history. If you learn music, you'll learn mathematics. If you learn music, you'll learn most all there is to learn.

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.

You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last.

Im always interested in looking - historically - at how theater can animate history and how all of that can make us engage with our lives in an enriching way.

Artists are part of the information process... Visual history is important in providing a record of what is going on - levels of intention, levels of confidence, levels of aggression or control.

For most of human history, musicians, artists, they've been part of the community — connectors and openers, not untouchable stars.