Art Quotes - random
The audience, as ground, shapes and controls the work of art.
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
Sgt Pepper made me more famous but it did not change me as an artist.
With purity and with holiness I will pass my life and practice my Art.
It seems to me he has lost the art of communication; but not, alas, the gift of speech.
Ah! heavy art thou, crown of Monomakh!
Being funny is a gift, and, when done well, is an art form.
All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!
A work of art is good if it has grown out of necessity.
Every artist has a Dorian Gray slaving away in the attic.
New art is sensory violence on the frontiers of experience.
The artists is responsible for his history and his nature, his history is part of his nature.
Art hurts. Art urges voyages—
and it is easier to stay at home.
It's rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing.
Art does not imitate, but interpret.
The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
Art is art-as-art and everything else is everything else.
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
An artist is a socially unattractive person whom socially attractive people make money out of.
It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.