Top 100 Art You Quotes
#1. In every form of art, you really want the experience of the images to transcend the medium, for the medium to disappear into the greater experience of viewing the work. So that you forget you are looking at a painting, or a photograph.
Bill Henson
#2. Always good to remember when you're making art. You don't have to like it, just be ready to do the next thing.
Neil Gaiman
#3. Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art, you must master the craft. If you want to write, practice writing.
Ann Patchett
#4. But there's the paradox of fiction - why do you cry when a fake character dies? It's the basis of art. You engage with people who don't exist and care about them as you would your friends and relatives.
Michael Gruber
#5. When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.
Patrick Stump
#6. I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.
Steve Martin
#8. Find the most puzzling kind of art you can think of, and then go out and try to approximate it with your camera. Take a photograph that corresponds to it. (Assignment to students.)
John Baldessari
#9. Direction is the most invisible part of the theatrical art. You don't see it.
Terry Teachout
#10. You can't control life. It doesn't wind up perfectly. Only-only art you can control. Art and masturbation. Two areas in which I am an absolute expert.
Woody Allen
#11. Being an artist is not just about what happens when you are in the studio. The way you live, the people you choose to love and the way you love them, the way you vote, the words that come out of your mouth ... will also become the raw material for the art you make.
Teresita Fernandez
#12. House-watching is an art. You have to develop a way of seeing how a building sits in its landscape or streetscape. You have to discover how much room it takes up in the world, how much of the world it displaces.
Edmund De Waal
#13. There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through
Dan Rice
#14. If you're going to make great art, you have to make it at a huge cost - you have to be prepared to sacrifice what other people think of you, other people's opinions, and you have to make personal sacrifices.
Romola Garai
#15. Take the beautifully wild pieces of your life and shape them into the manicured works of art you want your life to become. That is your lifescape
Jaha Knight
#16. Olivia is a piece of art. You have to know how to interpret her, how to see the beauty under the harsh lines of her personality.
Tarryn Fisher
#17. A novel, of course, is a fully self-contained work of art. You pick it up off the shelf, open it, and there it is - a whole universe waiting for you to enter. A screenplay is just a blueprint for making a movie. Until the movie is actually filmed, the script really means nothing.
John Niven
#18. That is the bitterness of art: you see a good effect, and some nonsense about sense continually intervenes.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#19. When you take technology and mix it with art, you always come up with something innovative.
Robert Rodriguez
#20. Art is art. You can take it or leave it. Liking it or not liking it does not make you a better person, and who you like or dislike results in the same thing.
Trent Zelazny
#21. Right mindfulness does not simply mean being aware; it is like creating a work of art. You can therefore trust what you are doing; you are not threatened by anything. You have room to dance in the space, and this makes it a creative situation. The space is open to you.
Chogyam Trungpa
#22. The picture is not a documentary, ... It's a drama that has to be crafted. Reality is not art. You have to make choices when you're trying to make something work. And the choices we make I think are accurate. There aren't any lies in it. There are assumpt
Mark Rydell
#23. If you see yourself reflected in art, you feel validated.
Erik Parker
#24. That's the history of art - you have to consider yourself fortunate if you ever get acknowledged. If you have a critical success that's also a financial success and that you feel good about ... If things line up, that's pretty rare.
Richard Linklater
#25. In any great art, you create a world, and you invite people into that world, and hopefully, it's fleshed out enough and you've explained it well enough.
Ron Funches
#26. Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
Charles De Lint
#27. I don't really consider myself a model, to be honest. I respect designers; I think it's another art, you know.
Josephine De La Baume
#28. I can assure you, that once you get rid of the notion of art, you acquire a great many wonderful new freedoms.
Jean Tinguely
#29. If you are a reader of 'Harper's Bazaar,' to me, you are a woman who loves fashion, but not just fashion; you love fashion, you love travel, you love art, you love music.
Carine Roitfeld
#30. I like when people have opinions - especially about art. You can hate my art. I made my art to be hated. That's why I made the name paintings.
Josh Smith
#31. There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
Pablo Picasso
#32. When it comes to art you can't please everybody but if you please yourself then take pleasure in that.
Cise Star
#33. It was at Juilliard that I realized that being a singer encompasses so many things that I am interested in. Literature, languages, physics, history, art. You really get to explore so many things.
Susanna Phillips
#34. You can't make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That's what makes the adventure of painting.
Robert Rauschenberg
#35. Sleeping, as Nietzsche put it, 'is no mean art; you need to stay awake all
Kieran Conway
#36. Art teaches you the philosophy of life, and if you can't learn it from art, you can't learn it at all. It shows you that there is no perfection. There is light, and there is shadow. Everything is in half tint.
William Morris Hunt
#37. Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.
Iggy Azalea
#38. Every artist should live by these words: Never feel bad about successfully selling your creations. Never feel bad about creating art you can't sell.
Marc Ecko
#40. It is important to fund young researchers who want to do curiosity-driven research. Curiosity-driven research is a part of life. Some people are curious. They want to learn more about nature and society should help that. It's like art: you can learn more and bring more beauty.
Serge Haroche
#41. I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.
Charles Rosin
#42. And that's the best we can hope for from art, you know? That it changes you for the better. That it lights up the world a little bit.
Ben Monopoli
#43. As with any art, you create it [drumming] out of something that isn't there. It's very architectural. It's the architecture of whatever piece of music I'm playing. I think the whole idea of drumming is to allow other people around you to more easily express themselves.
Max Weinberg
#44. The tricky thing about being a writer, or about being any kind of artist, is that in addition to making art you also have to make a living.
Ann Patchett
#45. As a comic book artist, once you become a master, you end up a slave. In fine art you're always free ... since I couldn't make it at Marvel, I made my life a carnival.
Mark Kostabi
#46. If you want to know about what's good in art, you should talk to an artist.
Robert Barry
#47. But maybe that's how it is with art. You suffer, and in the end, everyone thinks it's cool.
Tom Dolby
#48. Denigrating art you don't understand doesn't hurt the art - it reveals something about your willingness to learn.
Seth Godin
#49. Making your bed could be a piece of art, and writing a book could be a piece of art. You could also write a book that's not a piece of art, but that is a book, and it could be a book that was written by an artist.
Matthew Brannon
#50. The biggest thing is education for young chefs and how they should focus on one cuisine rather than trying to imitate too many. It's like art - you can see the cycles from many past artists and new artists being inspired by past artists.
Daniel Boulud
#51. Catharsis isn't art. You can't rely on catharsis to get a laugh. Because guess what? People do laugh when something's shocking, but that is, to me, the absolute fakest of laughs. That's not something that sustains a television series, or a movie, or even 45 minutes of a stand-up set at Carolines.
Mindy Kaling
#52. I think that, with a lot of art, you just have to be bad at it a long time before the magic happens.
Hugh Howey
#53. I'll have periods when I write and periods when I don't. But you don't want it to become a discipline, really. If it becomes a discipline, it becomes a chore, and that's no good. To make art you need to be inspired.
Greg Lake
#54. You're supposed to expand your mind to fit the art, you're not supposed to chop the art down to fit your mind.
Steven Soderbergh
#55. HANNAH: Don't let Bernard get to you. It's only performance art, you know. Rhetoric, they used to teach it in ancient times, like PT. It's not about being right, they had philosophy for that. Rhetoric was their chat show. Bernard's indignation is a sort of aerobics for when he gets on television.
Tom Stoppard
#56. It's all in the art. You get no credit for living.
V.S. Pritchett
#57. To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great boldness of imagination.
Virginia Woolf
#58. Consider that if artist equals self, then when (inevitably) you make flawed art, you are a flawed person, and when (worse yet) you make no art, you are no person at all!
David Bayles
#59. At times like this you desperately need Art. You seek to reconnect with your spiritual illusions, and you wish fervently that something might rescue you from your biological destiny, so that all poetry and grandeur will not be cast out from the world
Muriel Barbery
#60. To meditate, you need to feel, and feeling is a lost art. You need to feel the stillness of existence and also the sound of existence. You need to feel that which lies beyond your awareness field, and that which is within it.
Frederick Lenz
#61. you cannot teach art - you cannot make a soul
John Geddes
#62. I want to be an improviser, and I've worked very hard at that. It's an art. You don't just play whatever comes into your head; you have to be very deliberate about what you do.
Neil Peart
#63. I live through risk. Without risk there is no art. You should always be on the edge of a cliff about to fall down
and break your neck.
Carlos Fuentes
#64. If you're making art, you are not separate from your brand.
Danielle LaPorte
#65. That's like the really fun, exciting thing about wrestling. There's no such thing as perfecting this art. You're constantly growing and you're constantly progressing and changing up you're style and gauging an audience to make sure that audience is enjoying what you're doing.
Adam Cole
#66. Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on what luck, the paint, the typo, the dissonance, give you. Without art you're stuck with yourself as you are and life as you think life is.
Mark Vonnegut
#67. Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isn't any good. But everyone has a different opinion about which 85 percent is bad. That in turn creates fantastically unstable interplay and argument.
Jerry Saltz
#68. I don't think you can be taught how to make art. You can be coached, but on a fundamental level you have to figure it out for yourself. You have to learn how your own mind works, figure out your own relationship to the art; you essentially have to invent it completely for yourself.
Philipp Meyer
#69. In India, nobody really talks about works of art; they always talk about the appreciation of art. You buy this for 3,000 rupees, it'll become 30,000 in two months.
A. Balasubramaniam
#70. Nothing prepares you for making art except making art. You have to do it to get better.
Philipp Meyer
#71. It's just endless what you can learn from a single work of art. You can fill up the crevices of your life, the cracks of your life, the places where the mortar comes out and falls away-you can fill it up with the love of art.
Vincent Price
#72. When I went to school, you had to take art, you had to play an instrument. You had to play an instrument. But it's all degraded since then. I do not know what kind of nation we are that is cutting art, music, and gym out of the public-school curriculum.
Spike Lee
#73. [In art] you are telling the reader or the listener or the viewer something he already knows but which he doesn't quite know that he knows, so that in the action of communication he experiences a recognition, a feeling that he has been there before, a shock of recognition.
Walker Percy
#74. I love audiences, but they're not there to drive the bus. Whenever you ask opinions or anticipate opinions you can get pretty terrible art, or non-art. You need a single guiding intelligence, even in a collaborative form.
William Monahan
#75. You are a fool to seek the kind of art you don't like. You are a fool to read classics because you are told to and not because you like them. You are a fool to aspire to good tastes if you haven't naturally got it.
Ezra Pound
#76. If you want to create art, you'd best have a deep belief in yourself and no ulterior motives.
Twyla Tharp
#77. We accept so many things that come through the media; we get used to them, however vigilant we are. But for any creative art, you have to remain 110% conscious, and in a world that's losing consciousness, that's getting harder.
Keith Jarrett
#78. To make art you need to be inspired.
Greg Lake
#79. When it comes to fashion or any high art, you have to have a combination of delicacy, along with taste.
Erykah Badu
#80. All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing.
Salman Rushdie
#81. You're free to do anything you want with your company. It's more like art. You don't have to follow any norms. It's an expression of how you feel the world should be. When you make a company, that's your little place to make your own little utopia.
Derek Sivers
#82. In art, you CAN crash your plane and walk away from it
Brian Eno
#83. I don't want to think too much about art, you see. I don't want to attend symposia, listen to papers, or discuss it at cocktail parties ... What I want to do is clutch my heart and fall down when I see it. (Mr. Nannuzzi to Edgar)
Stephen King
#84. But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible.
Nate Ruess
#85. Now the culture is made of old things, it's a collage. Art made out of art is not art. You're supposed to make art out of life.
Fran Lebowitz
#86. The thing about architecture is that it's an art [you] simply learn more by doing more. It's one of those things that is really not an art about thinking, but doing. So in a way, what it has done is greatly intensify the way that I build.
David Adjaye
#87. I think most producers and MCs are constantly in this competition, but it's usually with yourself. It's usually wanting to be innovative: wanting to catch yourself when you're doing the same thing or throwing out the same art you've already done.
Ryan Lewis
#89. Unless you are a born connoisseur of art, you will not be able to judge by yourself why certain art is superior to other art.
David Elliott
#90. You don't need tons of money to create art. You do need tons of money to be a part of show business. They are two different things.
Demian Bichir
#91. I have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful as you can.
James Mercer
#92. Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
Oscar Wilde
#93. When you understand a species' art, you understand that species.
Timothy Zahn
#95. A wealth you cannot imagine flows through you. Do not consider what strangers say. Be secluded in your secret heart-house, that bowl of silence. Talking, no matter how humble-seeming, is really a kind of bragging. Let silence be the art you practice. #54, I SEE THE FACE
Rumi
#96. At the end of the day, you want to be always the one that's one step ahead of everybody, and when it comes to hip-hop, culture and art, you want to be that signature guy.
Carmelo Anthony
#98. Much of our lives involves the word 'no.' In school we are mostly told, 'Don't do it this way. Do it that way.' But art is the big yes. In art, you get a chance to make something where there was nothing.
Marvin Bell
#99. To make great art, you had to expose your soul, and some things should be left safely in the dark.
Patricia Briggs
#100. Your life is the manifestation of your dream; it is an art. You can change your life anytime if you aren't enjoying the dream.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
