Art Quotes - Page 4

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.

One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.

I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art.

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

We use art to combat the dark side of capitalism.

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

Resolve and thou art free.

Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers; they bloom and then they die, then exist only as memories, or pressed in magazines and books.

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.

When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

A picture is a poem without words.