Quotes about Art

“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.”

“What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space.”

“Trauma happens in relationships, so it can only be healed in relationships. Art can't provide healing. It can be cathartic and therapeutic but a relationship is a three-part journey.”

“I've always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.”

“The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.”

“Filmmaking is a very collaborative art. Unlike a painting that an artist paints sitting by himself, as a director, you have to work with a team.”

“The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.”

“Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.”

“In art the best is good enough.”

“It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.”

“I'm for mechanical art. When I took up silk screening, it was to more fully exploit the preconceived image through the commercial techniques of multiple reproduction.”

“I have had an interest in art since childhood. I loved to draw as a child and still do.”

“I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture.”

“I always said God was against art and I still believe it.”

“Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.”

“Knowing how to dress is an art.”

“The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.”

“I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.”

“Each mountain in the Dolomites is like a piece of art.”

“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.”

“In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives.”