Quotes about Art

“Art is a subjective thing, and it should be a subjective thing. And the difficulty of subjectivity is that it becomes hugely problematized when you start applying large sums of money to art objects. That's where it all starts to get a bit sticky.”

“If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.”

“Art depends on luck and talent.”

“The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.”

“Art is made in hindsight.”

“Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.”

“Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.”

“I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind.”

“A picture is worth a thousand words.”

“Insight is the first condition of Art.”

“Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.”

“Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.”

“Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.”

“I feel like skateboarding is as much of a sport as a lifestyle, and an art form, so there's so much that that transcends in terms of music, fashion, and entertainment.”

“Filmmaking can be a fine art.”

“Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.”

“A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.”

“So vast is art, so narrow human wit.”

“Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.”

“Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.”

“That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.”