Art Quotes - random
"Art is not an end but a beginning."
Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere;
Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh, hear!
"I always want to design a frame that’s open to everyone. I don’t see art as a secret code."
The artist, like the idiot or clown, sits on the edge of the world, and a push may send him over it.
An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.
En art comme en amour, l'instinct suffit.
“His eyes were the unrivaled wonder of Abhinaya”
- P.T. Narendra Menon (connoisseur of art), 1990
It is in front of the the paper that the artist creates himself.
"I’m not sure I’m good at art, but I find an escape in it."
There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
To break and be able to grow together again in a better way: that is the difficult art.
Any idealism is a proper subject for art.
Music is the vapour of art.
Art is not imitation but illusion.
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for co-operation with oneself.
But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.
A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.
All British artists 1988--? Just signing your name is not enough, you withered fucking idiots.
The artist begins with a vision — a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage.
Mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual.