Art Quotes

Everyone in those days expected that art students were wild, licentious characters. We didn't know how to be, but we sure were anxious to learn.

My trade and art is to live.

It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.

What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world.

Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary.

Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.

The real art of conducting consists in transitions.

I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings.

We probably put about four or five comic books out a year and probably about two or three art books and various trade paperbacks - maybe four or five of those a year - and that's what we do now.

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

Politics is the art of the next best.

My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.

Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

We were astonished by the beauty and refinement of the art displayed by the objects surpassing all we could have imagined - the impression was overwhelming.

If you cannot learn to love real art at least learn to hate sham art.

Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?

Zen, per se, is not just an art, it's not just a religion, it's a realisation.

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.

I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.

Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.

Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.