Art quotes

I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more.

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.

One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.

I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.

History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed art has remembered the people, because they created.

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.

I don't think art is propaganda it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.

I don't think there is such a thing as being too raunchy when it comes to the art form of burlesque.

Nature is the art of God.

Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.

A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.

My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from college. As parents, they focused on education, but did not stop at academics - they made sure that we knew music, saw art and theatre and traveled - even though it meant budgeting like crazy.

All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.

Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.