Art quotes

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate good is always the product of an art.

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?

You say a new era in art is preparing you sensed it coming continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.

I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.

I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools - only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in art.

To engage with art, we have to be willing to be wrong, venture outside our psychic comfort zones, suspend disbelief, and remember that art explores and alters consciousness simultaneously.

Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for upsized art and more of it. I've heard of photographers asked to print larger to increase the wall power and salability of their work. Everything winds up set to maximum in order to feed the beast.

I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that.

Art is so subjective, and people can react however they want.

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form.

Art and works of art do not make an artist sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.