Art Quotes

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw.

In order to understand what they need to understand, in order to write what they write, they have to be free. And yet, they aren't ever free. They are not free because they are not free of the constrictions their art puts on them.

The idea is to bring art to people who might never really interact with it. It's for all citizens, and it's about making the city more interesting and more visually significant.

The first professional training I received of any kind was when I was 14 years old and we were in Kansas City, Missouri. I attended the Kansas City Art Institute for one summer.

Cats are anthropomorphised in art because they are so laid back that you automatically attribute human thoughts and feelings to them.

The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.

Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself.

The talent is always there and art is cyclical. I'm optimistic.

We probably put about four or five comic books out a year and probably about two or three art books and various trade paperbacks - maybe four or five of those a year - and that's what we do now.

We are cutting things kids like-music, art, and gym classes; stuff that kept me in school. This country can't survive without you kids. It's all about you kids.

I don't get many hecklers now but answering them is an art form in itself.

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.

Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures.

The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.

Photography has been a passion of mine since I was 15. After my kids were born I found myself incorporating my photography into different art endeavors and from there it just blossomed.

My shadow in my art is one way I trace who I was and where I have been. My shadow and I have been on a journey for quite a while now!

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.

Attack is only one half of the art of boxing.

Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.

I've had cameras on me since I started the art of fighting and I think that I'm used to having cameras on me in adrenaline-type situations.

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Art must not serve might.

In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.

Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.

I paint with shapes.