Art Quotes

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist.

The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it.

Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.

Unlike the expressionists, I have never been interested in renewing the world through the vehicle of art.

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.

Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.

But don't call me an actor. I'm just a worker. I am an entertainer. Don't say that what I am doing is art.

Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.

The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.

I always feel that art in general and acting in particular should make the audience a little uncomfortable, to slap them and wake them up.

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.

Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise.

Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.

Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.

The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.

Technique! The very word is like a shriek of outraged Art. It is the idiot name given to effort by those who are too weak, too weary, or too dull to play the game. The mighty have no theory of technique.

We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum of Modern Art, where we had hoped to do the readings.

The Upper Bohemia people wore tuxedos in an art gallery, and Lower Bohemia was all of us.

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.

All art is exploitation.

All I owe the world is my art.

No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody.

All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether you engage in the art process yourself or you're an audience member.