Quotes About Art

All art originates in the human mind, in our reactions to the world rather than in the visible world itself, and it is precisely because all art is "conceptual" that all representations are recognizable by their style.

A necromancer is one whose magic art makes the dead speak. An archaeologist is one whose spade uncovers forgotten centuries. Sometimes the distinction between the two becomes dismayingly thin.

Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.

Singin' in the Rain was most excellent if you like movies where people burst into song and tap-dance. Which I do, though not as much as I like movies where people don't.

We all know that Beauty grows to love the Beast. She grows to love him, despite what her family might think ? for his charm and education, his knowledge of art and his sensitive heart.

I'll tell you what I don't want at my funeral," says Johnny. "I don't want a bunch of New York art-world types who don't even know me standing around in a stupid-ass reception room." "I don't want religious people talking about a God I don't believe in," says Gat. "Or a bunch of fake girls acting all sad and then putting lip gloss on in the bathroom and fixing their hair," says Mirren.

Well, you can laugh. It's kind of a hippopotamus and it's kind of a car. And also, it's kind of a church. The meaning is what the viewer sees in it.

Maybe a picture will emerge from the pixels.

The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned.

And don't, let me beg you, go with that awful tourist idea that Italy's only a museum of antiquities and art. Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land

Conceptual art isn't art, but it is Jewish. It signals the culmination of the Jewish takeover of modern art. Conceptual art requires no artistic ability, talent or skill. That's why Jews gravitate toward it and promote it. It's an example of Jews defining art as what they do rather than defining art in its relationship to Logos.

Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine arts; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest to reach true perfection.

the whole story of art is not a story of progress in technical proficiency, but a story of changing ideas and requirements.

And it is because they seem so natural that they are so beautiful.

It is the power of expectation rather than the power of conceptual knowledge that molds what we see in life not less than in art.

The familiar will always remain the likely starting point for the rendering of the unfamiliar; an existing representation will always exert its spell over the artist even while he strives to record the truth.

Nature reflected in art always reflects the artist's own mind, his predilections, his enjoyments, and therefore his moods.

A painting which represents a familiar subject in an unexpected way is often condemned for no better reason than that it does not seem right.

They may have heard that Rembrandt was famous for his chiaroscuro...so they nod wisely when they see a Rembrandt, mumble 'wonderful chiaroscuro,' and wander onto the next picture. I want to be quite frank about this danger of half-knowledge and snobbery, for we are all apt to succumb to such temptation.