Art Quotes - random
"My work has always been political, because the choice of being an artist is political in China."
Art is not made to decorate rooms. It is an offensive weapon in the defense against the enemy.
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
Art indeed is long, but life is short.
Any idealism is a proper subject for art.
"I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art."
A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry.
Riches and Art are spurious receipts for the production of Happiness and Beauty.
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment in recognition of the pattern.
Art is the signature of civilizations.
A painting is finished when the artist says it is finished.
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.
Art hath an enemy call'd ignorance.
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.
The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or to evil.
Interviewer: Would you say any other manga artists have influenced you?