Art Quotes

Seventy-five percent of great art is hard work only about twenty-five percent is great talent.

Buying art is not understanding art.

There is no new wave, only the sea.

Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts.

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

Art - when it is really doing what it should do - teaches abstract thinking; it teaches teamwork; it teaches people to actually think about things that they cannot see.

Art is so often better at theology than theology is.

No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.

Real painters understand with a brush in their hand.

Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? ...people who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.

In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.

Even Michelangelo got paid for doing the Sistine Chapel. To those artists who say they're doing it for the love of art, I say: Get real.

Philosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes subject.

I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them.

Nursing encompasses an art, a humanistic orientation, a feeling for the value of the individual, and an intuitive sense of ethics, and of the appropriateness of action taken.

True art lies in a reality that is felt.

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.

All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.

Jazz is an art form that depends on its antecedents, there must be respect for the people that have gone before.

If I had to choose a single destination where I'd be held captive for the rest of my time in New York, I’d choose the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.

Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand!

The fusion of art and technology that we call interface design.

No girl who is going to marry need bother to win a college degree; she just naturally becomes a "Master of Arts" and a "Doctor of Philosophy" after catering to an ordinary man for a few years.

Backpacking is the art of knowing what not to take.

Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements.

...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?

The beautiful is always bizarre.

A tattoo is a true poetic creation, and is always more than meets the eye. As a tattoo is grounded on living skin, so its essence emotes a poignancy unique to the mortal human condition.

Great artists need great clients.

Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to make that cheque, nobody putting art in their albums any more.

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the country should be happy that we are what we are.

I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I don't do it. I'm not crazy about categories.

The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.

My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.

Rae Chorze Fwaz was a mystery school. A mystery school is an occult order comprised of people who study meditation, enlightenment and psychic and occult arts.

There's some people who are not understanding what Limp Bizkit is about. But, then again, who am I to tell people what they can use art for or how they can interpret it?

Art, in fact, can be nothing but violence, cruelty and injustice.

As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities.

Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity.

The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better.

My whole theory about art is the disparity that exists between form, masses and movement.

The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.

I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist.

I don't think you can talk about progress in art - movement, but not progress. You can speak of a point on a line for the purpose of locating things, but it's a horizontal line, not a vertical one.

MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.

Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.

As an artist, you have to keep reinventing yourself.

By the single example of this painter devoted to his art with such independence, my destiny as a painter opened out to me.