Quotes About Art

A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.

Those who change the course of art use any means to convince the world that it needs something it neither anticipates nor understands and rarely wants. Artistic achievement is in large part a function of will; it is rarely a function of character.

Everything that now exists, no matter how great and good it is, lasts for a time, fulfills a purpose, and then passes on. And so it will be with all the works of art that now exist; an eternal veil of forgetfulness will lie over them, just as there is now over those things that came before.

My heart was full and uplifted; it seemed that in my soul the question arose whether such things as Art, literature, science encompassed and completed life or whether there was still something in the distance which encompassed it even more completely and filled it with a far greater happiness.

I reflect that all art, all beauty, is reflection.

When you see a Gauguin, you think, This man is living in a dream world. When you see a van Gogh, you think, This dream world is living in a man.

The personality trait most associated with an interest in the arts is called openness, the tendency to seek out novelty in intellectual, aesthetic, and emotional pursuits.

Kind of gay? I wanted to say. Do you have any notion how many homosexuals sweated their ass off on the dance floor to make this soaring bit of derivative trash possible? How many died of AIDS, OD'd, or went broke on the way to that girl from Texas cutting a deal...

the things that make us human: freedom, art, choice, identity, expression, love. And

son draws comics of Mongolian invasions and the Civil Rights Movement—

I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.

genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood

We have the magic of art that we may not perish of the truth.

The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.

I keep trying to get Matt here to cross back over into fiction, but he insists on slumming it in the theatre like some sort of third-class peasant.

Poetry is the intuitive explanation of the unconscious mind

It is the oldest depiction of the human body.

By 40,000 years ago, there are clear, unequivocal depictions of figurative art in multiple forms, and clear evidence for imagination, abstract thought, music and profound fine motor skills. Something had changed.

The American Nazi Party asserts that they are not White supremacists, merely separatists. They also specifically want to ban modern art and rap music. So it goes.

There is no old Adam Young, there is no new Adam Young, merely different colors and different brushstrokes over the same canvas.

Abstract art involves complex layers and perspectives. To be distinct and hold a truly personalized view point, every element in the piece must be devised to be claimed as entirely mine. Meaning it's all based on sculpture, because most of what we know of photography involves capturing someone else's work, which I dislike.

Art exhibitions would be less censored if they were rated, G or NC-17, like movies. People in general see galleries and museums as family-appropriate excursions. Censorship is a provided system which caters to lazy parenting, which is publicly-funded and socially accepted.

Most people don't like to be confronted with an actual fact-of-life because it's difficult to metabolize. A painting of a bowl of fruit is much easier. It's for the same reason why we don't like going to the doctor. The diagnosis and x-rays are too honest. This is what creates the perception that contemporary art is shocking or suspicious."

Speaking of poison, unlike processed food, which is bad to consume, art should be the polar opposite: it should be over-processed to the point of being dangerous. To be deemed subversive, and intriguing to the eye and intellect, it must induce some form and degree of disruption. In that perspective, art is always safe, despite of idiotic censorship, as long as you don't eat it."