Art Quotes - random
Bureaucracy is simultaneously the most crippling of Indian diseases and the highest of Indian art forms.
Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.
Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession,? and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
I am a graphic artist heart and soul, though I find the term "artist" rather embarrassing.
Nichts halb zu thun ist edler Geister Art.
The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.
"My work has always been political, because the choice of being an artist is political in China."
Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.
Art is a guaranty of sanity.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
The audience, as ground, shapes and controls the work of art.
To make the material speak to man in the name of man, this is the aim and reality of art.
One hundred artists introduce us to one hundred worlds.
It seems to me he has lost the art of communication; but not, alas, the gift of speech.
I wanted to kill art for myself… …a new thought for that object.
In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.
Art is not a mirror to hold up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it.