Art Quotes

They're not poodles, they're art.

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating.

When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.

Minimal art went nowhere.

I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art.

During the '70s I was interested in words and meaning as a way of making art.

Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.

All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art.

Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of my involvement with public art is a continuation of wall drawings.

A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.

I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master of two art forms. Seriously, you have to be able to draw like a Leonardo da Vinci or a Michelangelo. But also you have to know movement and timing and control tha

Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.

I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.

The lines of Pearl Art Glass are clean, certainly not cluttered.

I have a healthy view of what one can do with art.

I view art as an inspirational tool.

That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe.

I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.

Buying art is not understanding art.

Art is difficult. It's not entertainment.

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind.

People want to make a distinction between what's commercial and what's art.

Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.

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

From an art perspective, I don't know how you get better than 'Beetlejuice.' In terms of originality and a look, it's 100% unique.

I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.

The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.