Quotes About Art

The purpose of art is to console and amuse—myself, and, I hope, others.

Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.

There is always hope, as long as the canvases are empty.

There is hope in honest error; none in the icy perfections of the mere stylist

I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel.

I cannot expect even my own art to provide all of the answers, only to hope it keeps asking the right questions.

Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of pink and blue: it's enchanting, it's delicious, and I hope it will please you.

I hope I will always have the ability to create art and live in a world where I can speak freely, and I can inspire people. I don't know what form that will take.

I hope the Guggenheim plan will be revived.

I'm writing songs with the hope someone can get behind my feeling.

You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.

By bringing Little Sun to Tate Modern and the London Olympics, I hope to realise an art project for those who typically have no access to global events of this scale.

I do not care about my own appearance, but I would hope that people could see into my soul, and that is presented better in these photographs than in others. (On his self-portraits)

Artists are the only people in the world who really live. The others have to hope for heaven.

I hope that film is going to stay as an artform and that people won't forget that there are good movies also to be made.

I absolutely think that hand-drawn animation is valid and I actually hope to do one in the future with a large budget.

I hope to touch many Hearts through my music

Photography, too, reduces the world to strips and rectangles; photographers scrutinize the surfaces of reality in hope of unlocking the potential for significance that is latent within them.

Write a little every day, without hope, without despair.

I don't think in art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting with hope.

The artist must raise the cup of his vision aloft to the gods in the high hope that they will pour into it the sweet mellow wine of inspiration.

All that is happening in art is part of a process of exploration and discovery. I hope to live for a few more years so that I can catch glimpses of the oncoming future.

I hope that we can bridge the worlds of appearances and of insights, and thus rescue art from triviality, from 'sensation' alone.

The job of the photographer, in my view, is not to catalogue indisputable fact but to try to be coherent about intuition and hope. This is not to say that he is unconcerned with the truth.