Art Quotes - Page 19

The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.

Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.

Art is the signature of civilizations.

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.

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

Even a true artist does not always produce art.

I stopped worrying about competition in contemporary art. It feels a little bit more pure. That's where I am, one step back.

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.

I paint with shapes.

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

An empty canvas is full.

I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

The art is long, life is short.

It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.

Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.

Politicians are masters of the art of deception.

Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words.

If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?

All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art I have for writing has been used always for propaganda for gaining the right of black folk to love and enjoy. I do not care a damn for any art that is not used for propaganda.

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.