Quotes
Quotes about Art
The artist should be a seeing-eye dog for a myopic civilization.
Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.
Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.
Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.
In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.
That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
I didn't have any interest in traditional art.
The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.
An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.
Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
What is art but a way of seeing?.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
