Art Quotes

"The movie feels to me like a real work of lovely art"

"I have no illusions about my art. I am what the public made me and, consequently, I am not likely to forget my debt to them"

Conrad Veidt, Actor

"The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself"

Emmet Fox, Author

"The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, "then" what do we do?"

David Foster Wallace, Writer

"One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement"

Edgar Degas, Artist

"Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them"

Franz Marc, Artist

"I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I don't do it. I'm not crazy about categories"

Barbara Kruger, Artist

"I like the platform to show your art and everything that goes along with that. To show your voice and hopefully find films that are more politically driven, films that maybe inspire"

Antoine Fuqua, Director

"The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative"

Adolf Loos, Architect

"Whether I get adequate attention or not, people here do know the work I have been doing systematically and without compromise for over 40 years. I get tired of people making excuses for guys who don't continue the art because they can't make a living"

Bill Dixon, Musician

"The one thing about program television that's absolutely incompatible with any concept of art is that all decisions have to be made by program directors, whereas art is autonomous. It may be dependent, but it knows no superiors"

Alexander Kluge, Director

"The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone. The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort"

Adolf Loos, Architect

"When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection"

Agnes Martin, Artist

"Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings"

Agnes Martin, Artist

"Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it"

Arthur Erickson, Architect

"My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made"

Andy Goldsworthy, Artist

"When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process"

Jim Hodges, Politician

"Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together"

Alvar Aalto, Architect

"They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art"

Charlie Parker, Musician

"Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work"

Paddy Chayefsky, Playwright

"Don't make art for other artists or for 'intellectuals', make art for people - and if you can touch just one person in a lifetime and make a difference - you have succeeded"

Ray Conniff, Musician

"The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does what he does for one reason and one reason only-he can't help doing it"

Alma Gluck, Musician

"Any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive"

Larry Rivers, Musician

"Politicians are masters of the art of deception"

Martin L. Gross

"I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods"

Yves Tanguy, Artist

"Art is good but it isn't the best"

Jose Bergaman

"Anything I learned about the fine art of acting I learned from Hugo"

Cleo Moore, Actress

"The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing"

Doris Humphrey, Dancer

"Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art"

Bliss Carman, Poet

"As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art"

Albrecht Durer, Artist

"Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice"

Henry Louis Gates, Critic

"Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see"

George V. Higgins, Novelist

"You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates"

Werner Herzog, Director

"Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself"

Roy Lichtenstein, Artist

"I'm interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think it's the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really can't be this way"

Roy Lichtenstein, Artist

"Every single art form is involved in film, in a way"

Sydney Pollack, Director

"I dropped out of school for a semester, transferred to another college, switched to an art major, graduated, got married, and for a while worked as a graphic designer"

James Green Somerville

"At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways"

Laurie Anderson, Musician

"When the business starts shaping the art, or the delivery of the art, then it's not right"

Bob Mould, Musician

"Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it"

Robert Motherwell, Artist

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