Art Quotes - Page 2

It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

You begin with the possibilities of the material.

Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.

Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Extreme complication is contrary to art.

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art.

The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art.

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.

Trash has given us an appetite for art.

Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour.

I think it's the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist. The art itself should be the pain, sort of exorcising every demon and making you feel like you're a person that matters.

I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind.

Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

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.

Life is short, the art long.

A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience.

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.