Art Quotes

To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Whatever art form you're working in, it's crucial to see it clearly, to feel it clearly, and not to worry about the results, or how someone else will see it.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

Those who still think listening isn't an art should see if they can do it half as well.

I've been slagged off completely by the art world.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Unless you are a born connoisseur of art, you will not be able to judge by yourself why certain art is superior to other art.

The educator and the public need to have an opportunity to discuss why certain art is important.

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.

I don't know a single collector or museum director who says: 'Oh, he's on a list, so I think I'll buy something of his.' The people who buy my art put a little more thought into it than that.

A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two.

Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.

I also had a tremendous passion for art and read a lot.

Art is when things appear rounded.

Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things.

If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.

Vision is the true creative rhythm.

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.

Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

Hip-hop is the last true folk art.

Extreme complication is contrary to art.

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.

Art is the most beautiful of all lies.