Quotes about Art

“Film is pop art. It's not whether it's auteur cinema or not; that's a false distinction. Cinema is cinema.”

“An empty canvas is full.”

“Women are our most miraculous muse, an enchanted intangibility that encourages all art.”

“Every artist writes his own autobiography.”

“Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.”

“Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.”

“All art is erotic.”

“Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.”

“A lot of cinematography is intuition. It's an art, not a formula.”

“Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.”

“Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation.”

“I collect art, and I drink wine... things that I like that I had never been exposed to. But I never said, 'I'm going to buy art to impress this crowd.' That's just ridiculous to me. I don't live my life like that, because how could you be happy with yourself?”

“Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love.”

“Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.”

“Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.”

“I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.”

“Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.”

“Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.”

“Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.”

“Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.”

“Originality is the art of concealing your source.”