Art World Quotes

Art World Quote of the day

The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

You should definitely visit the Louvre, a world-famous art museum where you can view, at close range, the backs of thousands of other tourists trying to see the Mona Lisa.

To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk.

There's no diploma in the world that declares you as an artist—it's not like becoming a doctor. You can declare yourself an artist and then figure out how to be an artist.

I would like to show the world today as an ant sees it and tomorrow as the moon sees it.

The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation.

Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.

I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world

We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.

I don’t pay attention to the world. I just have the art I like and the music I like and for me that’s the whole world

Art cannot change the world, but it can contribute to changing the consciousness and drives of the men and women who could change the world.

Architecture is the art of reconciliation between ourselves andthe world, and this mediation takes place through the senses

I think the art world... is a very small pond, and it's a very inbred pond. They rely on information from an elect elite sect of galleries, primarily in New York.

Art is about trying to find the good in people, and making the world a more compassionate place.

Of all the wonders that the world had to offer, only art promised immortality.

If painting is no longer needed, it seems a pity that some of us are born into the world with such a passion for line and color.

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

Bruce Lee brought the martial arts movie to the attention of the world - and without him, I don't think that anyone would have ever heard of Jackie Chan.

The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.

The art world, of all worlds, has room for everyone.

If the world were clear, art would not exist.

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

Art isn't supposed to change the world, but it can.

At culinary school, none of the things we use to define ourselves outside that world - actor, producer, student - none of that matters. It's a magical art form.

Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.

Art has always been and is in its very essence the boldest departure from nature. It is the bridge into the spirit world.

Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.

A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.

Outside is the world; it's there. Pop Art looks out into the world.

Whatever happens to the art world, art will go on regardless. As for obscurity, it looms just over the horizon beckoning us all. Why worry.

The art world has become so insular. The rules have become so autodidactic that, in a sense, they lose track of what people have any interest in thinking about, talking about or even looking at.

I didn't know how a working-class girl like me could possibly make a living in the art world

I'm making some of the greatest art being made now. It'll take the art world ten years to get around to it.

Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.

Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.

Art makes better humans, art is necessary in understanding the world and art makes people happy. Undeniably, art is not optional.

The more horrible this world (as today, for instance), the more abstract our art, whereas a happy world brings forth an art of the here and now.

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.

Achilles exists only through Homer . Take away the art of writing from this world , and you will probably take away its glory .

I see a movie as a way of learning about the world, about myself, and learning about my relationship with people and art.

Most of the work I make uses materials that are a bit outside of the traditional fine art world.

Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.

Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique.

That celebrated marriage of science and art, photography, seemed at the time to join together how we look at the world, art, with how we were coming to know it, science.

Art is standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the world, and letting ourselves be a conduit for passing energy.

Art should never be sociological; it has got to be timeless. It's got to be your vision and how you can represent the world you see.

The role of art for me is the visualization of attitude, of the human attitude towards life, towards the world.

All art needs this visible world and will always need it. Quite simply because, being accessible to all, it is the key to all other worlds.

Art is a means to function thoroughly and passionately in a world that has a lot more to it than paint.

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.