Art Quotes

Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents.

True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.

Instead of art I have taught philosophy. Though technique for me is a big word, I never have taught how to paint. All my doing was to make people to see.

I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it was not so much for the development of artists. But we had there terribly stiff training.

In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.

More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.

I'm all about supporting anyone whose art is also the way they make their living.

From being at art college, I've always hated people that have the gall to think that they're being incredibly different when they're doing something in a very acceptable way, something safe that they've seen someone else doing.

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.

Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.