Art quotes

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.

In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.

I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person.

Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.

The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?

Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.

I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be.

The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

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

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.

Art seduces, but does not exploit.

People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.

Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.