Art Quotes - random
Economy is essential to all good art.
The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.
With curious art the brain, too finely wrought,
Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.
Art is not made to decorate rooms. It is an offensive weapon in the defense against the enemy.
This truth—to prove, and make thine own:
‘Thou hast been, shalt be, art, alone.’
The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.
I used to tell everyone I met to be an artist..... I don't do that any more.
There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
"I don’t see myself as a dissident artist. I see them as a dissident government!"
I didn't want to be a woman artist, I just wanted to be an artist.
Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.
Art is not a democracy. People don't get to vote on how it ends.
If thou art wise, thou knowest thy own Ignorance ; and thou art ignorant if thou knowest not thy self.
My father was a proctologist; my mother was an abstract artist. That's how I view the world.
I couldn't have sex with someone who didn't think was a good artist.
"A true master of peace is well versed in the art of war."
Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
A community`s art is its spiritual vision.
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.