Art quotes

Art lies by its own artifice.

It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.

Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

Life is short, the art long.

The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.

The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!

Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best for that we must have recourse to art.

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.

Art is anything you can get away with.

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.