Art Quotes - random
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.
For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.
Modernistic-Abstractionist-Art... consists of 75% explanation and 25% God knows what!
By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.
The word "artist" means man unless qualified by the category "woman."
But if you want to be a painter you must go to France — France is the only school of Art.
Art is not a mirror to hold up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it.
My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? ... my art gives meaning to my life.
The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
La critique est aisée, et l'art est difficile.
Foucault, like David Letterman, made smirking glibness an art form.
Why settle for the art world when you can have the whole world?
It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.
Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
Art is gushing hot bile on the fields and harvesting the looks of nasty dwarfs.
Great art should come from the harmony of two lines.
Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. And few ideas are worse than the ones we have about art.
One might say: art shows us the miracles of nature. It is based on the concept of the miracles of nature.