Art quotes

The cult of art gives pride one never has too much of it.

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.

There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.

You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

As in nature, as in art, so in grace it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.

Trauma happens in relationships, so it can only be healed in relationships. Art can't provide healing. It can be cathartic and therapeutic but a relationship is a three-part journey.

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.

Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.

Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things.

Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.

To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.

I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

We're all entitled to opinions about how art institutions should behave, and entitled to voicing those opinions through whatever means available to us. We're also allowed to change or modify our opinions.