Quotes About Art

With rare exceptions, I respond most to painting that cuts across grain rather than following it. I think the artist here can get in touch with that grain rather than simply feel its flow. And he really can't cut right across it anyway.

Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people - more just, more moral, more sensitive, more understanding. Perhaps that is true - in certain rare, isolated cases.

I've come to a real understanding of the enormity of what owner entrepreneurs do in founding great businesses. They are rare and a thing of art in many ways.

I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.

I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing.

With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art.

I'm rarely singing in English.

Very rarely is there any confusion as to when a painting or a song is finished. You just know when it's done.

My work rarely comes up in secondary market, so it means that my prices stay low.

I like 'Guys and Dolls,' 'Singin' in the Rain' and 'A Star Is Born.' When it works, a musical is an amazing thing. But it rarely works.

I rarely draw myself, in general, and if I do, I tend to do little cute manga-esque, almost bite-sized drawings of myself.

Rarely do I try to pull a creature out of life and make it a character.

Rarely in film acting do you get to do a scene for very long.

Inspiration takes many forms, but it's rarely pure.

I rarely meet a lot of the people who buy and collect my work.

Pictures often sit inside of pictures, but the edges of pictures and objects are rarely subjected to serious challenge; we are presented with distinct, whole pictures and objects.

It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned.

I'm a studio rat. I like going in there as producer.

I'm really like a rat in the rap game. I just drop stuff when I feel like it.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

I'm not so presumptuous to feel that they're gonna get it right away, get exactly what I have in mind. I hope that they'll enjoy looking at it at any rate, whatever it is. And that's why I started writing stories on my work.

When we meet a work of art, there's something about that encounter that isn't fixed in time, but rather, it unfixes time: the shaft opens. The past and present exist in the same moment, and we know, as beings, that we are connected. All the people who lived before us, all who will come after us, are connected in this moment.

I rather like contemporary art.

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.