Art Quotes

"All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation's art form"

"I think art can reflect tragedy"

"Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once"

"Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does"

Walter Murch, Editor

"Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided"

Paracelsus, Scientist

"Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads"

Marianne Moore, Poet

"All in the Family was intellectual; it was art"

Carroll O'Connor, Actor

"In LA I was watching At the Movies with Ebert and Roper, it was, nice to see them differentiate between the subject matter and the art form of making the film, and they both gave it thumbs up, and I was kind of pleased at their honesty as far as reviewers go"

Michael Berryman, Actor

"If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust"

Alan Rickman, Actor

"I'm a firm believer that actors take to work who they aren't at home. People show their other self in their art or in their work"

Robin Tunney, Actress

"Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable"

Leonard Baskin, Artist

"Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art"

Leonard Baskin, Artist

"I go to make art as who I am as a person. The fact that I am a woman comes into play maybe in the kinds of things I'm interested in or in the way I structure a canvas"

Judy Chicago, Artist

"I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen"

Lukas Foss, Composer

"But if you're talking about fine art work, then I think you have to ask yourself some pretty deep questions about why it is you want to take pictures and what it is you want to say"

Leonard Nimoy, Actor

"Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist"

Leonard Baskin, Artist

"The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it"

Leonard Baskin, Artist

"If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of music for decades, if not centuries"

George Crumb, Composer

"The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough"

George Edward Moore, Philosopher

"In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it"

Ernst Fischer, Writer

"Personality is essential. It is in every work of art. When someone walks on stage for a performance and has charisma, everyone is convinced that he has personality. I find that charisma is merely a form of showmanship. Movie stars usually have it. A politician has to have it"

Lukas Foss, Composer

"I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota"

Gustave Courbet, Artist

"Fine art is knowledge made visible"

Gustave Courbet, Artist

"Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men"

Giorgio de Chirico, Artist

"Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things"

Gustave Courbet, Artist

"I take this art very seriously and passionately. I love what I do. You can't help but grow. That's not to say you don't make mistakes or make bad choices, but that's part of the art. Painters paint bad paintings"

Christopher Meloni, Actor

"Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life"

Brad Holland, Illustrator

"Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't"

Brad Holland, Illustrator

"Cubism is still the most important art movement for the same reason that John D. is still the most important Rockefeller"

Brad Holland, Illustrator

"Art is not only about angst"

John Corigliano, Composer

"Art imitates life. Life imitates high school"

Brad Holland, Illustrator

"When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created"

Billy Joel, Musician

"I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that"

Erykah Badu, Musician

"I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art"

Ernst Fischer, Writer

"Well my taste wasn't very good when I first started out. But later, when I began to appreciate the art of acting, I would say the actress I most admire is Vanessa Redgrave"

Ellen Burstyn, Actress

"I'll dabble here and there in different forms of the art, but the label has me locked down like a slave so, of course, I'll be doing albums during this time"

Erykah Badu, Musician

"If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions"

Catherine Drinker Bowen, Writer

"Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't"

Brad Holland, Illustrator

"I love putting the music together. It's like art"

Erykah Badu, Musician

"In America, the only truly popular art form is the movies. Most people consider painting a hobby and literature, schoolwork"

Brad Holland, Illustrator

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