Quotes about Art

“That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.”

“The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.”

“Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.”

“A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.”

“An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.”

“When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.”

“As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.”

“You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.”

“I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.”

“Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.”

“Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings.”

“The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.”

“Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.”

“I like art. It's another way to rebel.”

“Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.”

“Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.”

“Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.”

“Art is an attempt to integrate evil.”

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”

“An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.”

“Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone.”