Art Quotes - random
I used to tell everyone I met to be an artist..... I don't do that any more.
A work of art is good if it has grown out of necessity.
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
The works of 'abstract' art are subtle creations of order out of simple contrasting elements.
Artists give us not conclusions but evidence.
I have a high art: I hurt with cruelty those who wound me.
Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
The greatest foe to art is luxury, art cannot live in its atmosphere.
The function of art is to struggle against obligation.
Art is the supreme task and the truly metaphysical activity in this life…
He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.
Today's Baudelaires are hip-hop artists.
Learn the art of Silence ; the wise Man that holds his Tongue, says more than the Fool who speaks.
Time which antiquates Antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things.
The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
I am a graphic artist heart and soul, though I find the term "artist" rather embarrassing.
A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
Cry, Art, cry and lament loudly, nobody nowadays wants you.
If thou art wise, thou knowest thy own Ignorance ; and thou art ignorant if thou knowest not thy self.
All British artists 1988--? Just signing your name is not enough, you withered fucking idiots.