Quotes about Art

“People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.”

“You don't have to know anything about art to appreciate it or to look at it. There aren't any hidden secrets or things that you're supposed to understand.”

“A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.”

“I wanted to create this dialogue between music and visual art and vice versa. No matter what part of the spectrum they fill, whether it's visual, music, or whatever, artists are interested in other art forms. Your brain is already kind of firing in that way.”

“Art raises its head where creeds relax.”

“There is nothing so beautiful as the free forest. To catch a fish when you are hungry, cut the boughs of a tree, make a fire to roast it, and eat it in the open air, is the greatest of all luxuries. I would not stay a week pent up in cities if it were not for my passion for art.”

“Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.”

“Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.”

“Muhammad Ali - he was a magnificent fighter and he was an icon... Every head must bow, every knee must bend, every tongue must confess, thou art the greatest, the greatest of all time, Muhammad, Muhammad Ali.”

“Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to make that cheque, nobody putting art in their albums any more.”

“Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.”

“So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point.”

“Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.”

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

“Politics is the art of controlling your environment.”

“The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.”

“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”

“Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.”

“Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.”

“Art will never be able to exist without nature.”

“So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.”