Quotes About Art

Guitar is the best form of self-expression I know. Everything else, and I'm just sort of tripping around, trying to figure my way through life.

A life lived for art, is never a life wasted.

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness.

I think art is a total thing. A total person giving a contribution. It is an essence, a soul.. In my inner soul art and life are inseparable

Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.

That is art: to give all you have. And what have you? Your life - nothing more. And to give life means to feel life throughout your whole being.

I am essentially a painter of the kind of still life composition that communicates a sense of tranquillity and privacy, moods which I have always valued above all else.

Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.

Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one.

Art is the flower... life the green leaf.

There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.

Every photograph... was a riot of luminous, out-of-focus color.

You see, if the function of a tool is removed, you have Art. Very witty, don't you think?

He made no distinction between pornography and science fiction, often wondering out loud why they confiscated the one and not the other.

I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry.

One person's inflammatory rhetoric is another person's poetry,

A work of art is worth what someone will pay for it.

Renaissance painters saw everything from one perspective, photographically, "realistically," but medieval painters looked at a scene from several different perspectives at once. A medieval picture looked at with this in mind becomes very exciting indeed. It is as if the artist is everywhere at once: the castle is tiny as if seen from afar; the men on its battlements huge as if encountered face to face; this lake is seen from that distance and that tree from this.

Born to be a natural artist you love or hate but can't deny While us minions in our millions tumble into history's chasm We might have a couple of laughs but we're still wastes of protoplasm

I think Damien Hirst is hilarious. And I think he's a true artist. He's not hilarious first I think he is a real artist, and I also think he's got an amazing sense of humor.

I sincerely believe we are created by a Creator to be creative. This is part of His image we bear, this bringing forth of beauty, life, newness...It looks like art, it looks like music, it looks like community, it looks like splendor. That thing in you that wants to make something beautiful? It is holy.