Art Quotes

"Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make"

"One thing that took a while to really adjust to was, you do it for the the art, for the money, for being together and having a good time, but you do it for all those people out there who really care about the show. We are now talking about a show we did over 20 years ago"

Steve Kanaly, Actor

"Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others' expectations can be avoided"

Tina Weymouth, Musician

"That piece has been choreographed so badly so many times. I'm loathe to do it but I may eventually because it is one of the seminal art works of the twentieth century"

Mark Morris, Dancer

"Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters"

M. Night Shyamalan, Director

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

Anthony Kiedis, Musician

"Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model"

Marilyn French, Author

"It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved"

Herbert Read, Poet

"Today's cinema is a global art form, it is impossible to make movies for a market the size of France, representing no more than 4% of the world's total"

Jean-Jacques Annaud, Director

"The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second"

Jean-Jacques Annaud, Director

"All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether you engage in the art process yourself or you're an audience member"

Jane Alexander, Actress

"But then when he left, I realized that it was harder to write songs and feel spiritually connected to art and music as a band. When he came back I felt it again, instantaneously"

Anthony Kiedis, Musician

"In the world of reality the more beautiful a work of art, the longer, we may be sure, was the time required to make it, and the greater the number of different minds which assisted in its development"

Lafcadio Hearn, Author

"Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art"

Philip James Bailey, Poet

"Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies"

Kofi Busia, Statesman

"In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession"

Alberto Giacometti, Sculptor

"Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb"

Jean Arp, Sculptor

"I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the Navy, there wasn't much to draw at sea. So I began writing, and I began reading a lot"

Evan Hunter, Author

"I think you can do anything with comics that you could do in just about any art form"

Harvey Pekar, Writer

"Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist"

Hans Hofmann, Artist

"By the time I was a teenager, I knew I wanted to be an artist. I was a born draftsman and liked all forms of art, so I just knew that's what I wanted to do"

Frank Frazetta, Artist

"In art, the obvious is a sin"

Edward Dmytryk, Director

"Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects"

Hans Hofmann, Artist

"That was the impetus for me to do music or art, because I knew if I didn't try when I was young, then I would get to be in my 40's and I'd be really unhappy that I hadn't"

Debbie Harry, Musician

"The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art"

Frank Moore Colby, Educator

"We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum of Modern Art, where we had hoped to do the readings"

David Amram, Composer

"I've never tried to learn the art of acting. I have been in the business for years but I still can't tell what acting is or how it's done"

Paul Muni, Actor

"One has complexes. One has the art complex. One goes to the School of Fine Arts and catches the complexes"

Jean Tinguely, Sculptor

"When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it"

Alberto Giacometti, Sculptor

"The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying to create a new philosophy"

Douglas Sirk, Director

"The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality"

David Hilbert, Mathematician

"The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol"

Herbert Read, Poet

"Art is pattern informed by sensibility"

Herbert Read, Poet

"Acting is an art form and you want to take roles that are challenged and it's more of a challenge I think to play dark characters. Not that I want to always play those, but it is a challenge and challenges are rewarding and fun"

James Franco, Actor

"I don't think art is a goal orientated business. I don't do things for the challenges, I only do them because I love them, I'm not really a goal orientated, achiever type of person"

Greg Lake, Musician

"There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about"

Helen Frankenthaler, Artist

"The picture is a self-sufficient work of art. It is not connected to anything outside"

Kurt Schwitters, Artist

"Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it"

Frank Wedekind, Playwright

"The first professional training I received of any kind was when I was 14 years old and we were in Kansas City, Missouri. I attended the Kansas City Art Institute for one summer"

Marc Davis, Artist

"Like everything genuine, its inner life guarantees its truth. All works of art created by truthful minds without regard for the work's conventional exterior remain genuine for all times"

Franz Marc, Artist

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