Art Quotes - Page 3

There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.

With just one polka dot, nothing can be achieved. In the universe, there is the sun, the moon, the earth, and hundreds of millions of stars. All of us live in the unfathomable mystery and infinitude of the universe. Pursuing 'philosophy of the universe' through art under such circumstances has led me to what I call 'stereotypical repetition.'

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.

What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes ah, that is where the art resides.

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'

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

Jazz is the art of thinking out loud.

My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.

The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.

Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.

Cooking well, with love, is an art.

In India, nobody really talks about works of art; they always talk about the appreciation of art. You buy this for 3,000 rupees, it'll become 30,000 in two months.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.