Quotes about Art

“The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.”

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

“Rules and models destroy genius and art.”

“When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.”

“Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things.”

“I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.”

“To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.”

“To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.”

“Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.”

“In the 1960s when the recording studio suddenly really took off as a tool, it was the kids from art school who knew how to use it, not the kids from music school. Music students were all stuck in the notion of music as performance, ephemeral. Whereas for art students, music as painting? They knew how to do that.”

“Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.”

“Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.”

“If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.”

“We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.”

“Art is anything you can get away with.”

“Paint the essential character of things.”

“Just as pure abstract art is not dogmatic, neither is it decorative.”

“The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't.”

“Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.”

“Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.”

“Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.”