Art Quotes

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.

The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing.

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

Oh yeah, I mean every fighter has got be dedicated, learn how to sacrifice, know what the devotion is all about, make sure you're paying attention and studying your art.

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.

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

I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness and change, or at least some discussion.

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.

It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of culture for thousands of years before. The…

I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.

It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.

If you don't get noticed, you don't have anything. You just have to be noticed, but the art is in getting noticed naturally, without screaming or without tricks.

Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there?

How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?

I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.

I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.

People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.

Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.

Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.

All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.

The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but…

The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.