Quotes about Art

“When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.”

“Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.”

“Art is a harmony parallel with nature.”

“Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.”

“Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials. Using modernist techniques, you get more control, and that allows you to be more artistic, not less!”

“To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.”

“Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.”

“A picture is a poem without words.”

“The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.”

“I like to learn. That's an art and a science.”

“Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.”

“Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.”

“The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.”

“It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.”

“Art is messy, art is chaos - so you need a system.”

“The art of pleasing is the art of deception.”

“Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.”

“Art is either plagiarism or revolution.”

“The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.”

“An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.”

“Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.”