Quotes about Art

“I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.”

“Diplomacy, n. is the art of letting somebody else have your way.”

“Of all lies, art is the least untrue.”

“The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.”

“Art is life's dream interpretation.”

“You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.”

“There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.”

“In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.”

“In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.”

“My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.”

“There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.”

“I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization.”

“One has complexes. One has the art complex. One goes to the School of Fine Arts and catches the complexes.”

“The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.”

“Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.”

“An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.”

“A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.”

“Pictures must not be too picturesque.”

“Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.”

“What a beautiful art, but what a wretched profession.”

“If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art.”