Quotes about Art

“What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.”

“What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.”

“Art and life are inseparable.”

“I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.”

“Wherever art appears, life disappears.”

“I could hardly sit through 'Frozen.' There was an attempt to craft a moral message and to build the story around that, instead of building the story and letting the moral message emerge. It was the subjugation of art to propaganda, in my estimation.”

“The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.”

“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.”

“Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.”

“If commercialization is putting my art on a shirt so that a kid who can't afford a $30,000 painting can buy one, then I'm all for it.”

“Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.”

“The art of delegation is one of the key skills any entrepreneur must master.”

“Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.”

“Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?”

“All great art is born of the metropolis.”

“The first thing I learned in boxing is to not get hit. That's the art of boxing. Execute your opponent without getting hit. In sports school, we were putting our hands behind our backs and having to defend ourselves with our shoulders, by rolling, by moving round the ring, moving out feet.”

“I wish I was better at art. I love some of the great artists of the 19th century and, compared to them, I just feel I lack this technique that they had. They have so much skill.”

“We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.”

“Great artists suffer for the people.”

“Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.”

“The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.”