Art Quotes

By the time I was a teenager, I knew I wanted to be an artist. I was a born draftsman and liked all forms of art, so I just knew that's what I wanted to do.

We don't make mistakes; we just have happy accidents.

It would have to be connected with performance art somehow, either in the front of the house or the back. I was myopic about this from fourth grade on

Art is violent. To be decisive is violent. ... To place a chair at a partial angle on the stage destroys every other possible choice, every other option.

The writer's only responsibility is to his art...If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies.

I don't get many hecklers now but answering them is an art form in itself.

A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.

Everybody has fear. The difference is that the coward does not control fear and the brave... gets over it.

Here is what we have to offer you in its most elaborate form -- confusion guided by a clear sense of purpose.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

Fluidity is the way to an empty mind. You must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying.

Nowadays, with digital printing, it's so easy to make everything perfect, which is not always a good idea. Sometimes the mistakes are really what make a piece.

A life lived for art, is never a life wasted.

Science provides an understanding of a universal experience, and arts provides a universal understanding of a personal experience.

If you are ready to die, then you are ready to live.

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Art is like a lover whom you run away from but who comes back and picks you up.

The art of Mime encompasses all the feelings of the soul. The Dance, on the other hand, is essentially an expression of joy, a desire to follow the rhythms of the music.

Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.

Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.

I can get obsessed by anything if i look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.

Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for.

Everything is art. Everything is politics.

Above all, art should be fun.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

It is something that artists do all the time unconsciously, working in the style of someone they consider a great master. I just wanted to make that relationship literal.

What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have.

In art, religion, and politics the respect must be mutual, no matter how violent the disagreement.

The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.

All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.

The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good.

A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence.

Simplify, slow down, be kind. And don't forget to have art in your life - music, paintings, theater, dance, and sunsets.

Photoshop is an art, and you can do a lot with it. Change the atmosphere through different lighting and make the pictures look more interesting.

Actual space is intrinsically more powerful and specific than paint on a flat surface.

Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations.

All the effects of Nature are only the mathematical consequences of a small number of immutable laws.

Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.

[On amassing art for her collection:] My motto was 'Buy a picture a day' and I lived up to it.

To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.

The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.

Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.

Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.