Art Quotes

"Language is a social art"

"I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller"

"I like music because it's the only invisible art form"

"Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them"

"I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass"

"All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God"

"The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups"

"It is what makes the reform process an art, not just a science. You have to develop a strategy that tells you what reform measures you should follow and in what sequence"

"The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting"

"The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable"

"I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is"

"I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach"

"Obviously in Art of Noise, I'm just part of the group, and when I do film scores, it's always in collaboration with the director and other people involved"

"I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art student and an acting student and behaved as most young actors did - meaning that there was no such thing as a good actor, 'cause you yourself hadn't shown up yet"

"The only albatross is the hurt you divine from what people say about your art"

"An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist"

"Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away"

"Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside"

"Being a former dancer, classical dancer, it informed me as a human being just in terms of the grace I guess. Ballet is a very graceful form of art. You also become very aware of your body and your mind and your body is working in conjunction. That kind of helps you in acting as well. It's not only using your mind, it's like making your mind communicate this character into your body so that you can bring it to life and physicalize it"

"I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life"

"I don't think geometric art is... I don't like to call it that. I don't think it's any more pure than pop art or anything else. It doesn't have anything to do with purity"

"But every single damn thing matters! Only we don't realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don't realize that's a lie"

"Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?"

"Comic art is just different. It's art on its own terms"

"They certainly aren't connected with the old geometric art. My work isn't geometric in that sense"

"I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality"

"Filmmaking can be a fine art"

"Art doesn't feed me or fill the void when I am not working. If I haven't worked for six months, I can't paint"

"Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross"

"Art will never be able to exist without nature"

"Great art picks up where nature ends"

"Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world"

"If it's good art, it's good"

"It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble"

"But back to your question, it was a wonderful experience with the Art Ensemble, and I keep in contact and sort of follow what's going on, but it was also very important to make this step, you may say this leap of faith"

"My art became very public"

"It would make me feel that creative art has a chance in this crazy world that we all live in"

"There is curiously little art concerning the efficacy of reason - perhaps simply because reason is not noticeably efficacious"

"I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some people sound like a very long one, but the novel as art is a middle-aged art"

"I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down"