Quotes about Art

“To put on a corset properly is as much of an art as to make a corset properly.”

“Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.”

“Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.”

“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.”

“She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.”

“Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.”

“I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many.”

“I stopped worrying about competition in contemporary art. It feels a little bit more pure. That's where I am, one step back.”

“Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.”

“As a longtime fan of talk radio, I'm very worried about the low opinion that conservative hosts and callers have of the American artist. Art is portrayed as a scam, a rip-off and snow job pushed by snobbish elites.”

“Through a painting we can see the whole world.”

“Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.”

“If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.”

“A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music. Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is. There is a lot of heartache in the world.”

“I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing to abstract art. That was my first creative thing before guitar or comedy.”

“The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.”

“Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.”

“To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.”

“As a person, I was born to give out my opinions. By giving out my opinions, I realize who I am. As long as I can communicate, I'm not so lonely. If I cannot travel, or do art, or have company, if they take away all my belongings, it doesn't matter at all.”

“Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.”

“Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.”