Quotes about Art

“The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.”

“The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.”

“What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.”

“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.”

“Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.”

“Politics is the art of the possible.”

“I'm not interested in making art unless I'm totally freaked out and worried people are going to hate it.”

“Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.”

“I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness in art. I want the ceremonial of religion; we are made for it.”

“I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.”

“Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.”

“We have art in order not to die of the truth.”

“Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.”

“We can learn the art of fierce compassion - redefining strength, deconstructing isolation and renewing a sense of community, practicing letting go of rigid us-vs.-them thinking - while cultivating power and clarity in response to difficult situations.”

“What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.”

“I would love to have my own show, and whatever movies come up, that would be fun to do too. But I love TV, and I love the art of the half-hour sitcom.”

“It appears to be monumental only because it's art.”

“But only art and music have the power to bring peace.”

“Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.”

“Clay can be dirt in the wrong hands, but clay can be art in the right hands.”

“He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.”