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"978 Art Quotes

Through art they confuse us and blind us to our enslavement. Art adorns our prison walls, keeps us silent and diverted and indifferent.

Art Blind Enslavement Silent
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A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Designer Achieved Perfection Nothing
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Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works

Design Looks Feel Works
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You absorb so much from whatever your environment is, as an artist, and you learn to take from it what can help you create.

You Environment Artist Create
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Those are miracles that no merely human brain can work. The artist is merely the sound conduct of a Force that dictates to him what he should do.

Miracles Work Artist Force
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Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living

Art Experimental Tries Living
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All great art is a form of complaint

Great Art Form Complaint
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Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens

Art's Purpose Quiet Mind
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Nothing will stop you being creative more effectively as the fear of making a mistake.

Nothing Creative Fear Mistake
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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists
Art Mode Communication Exists
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Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and all individuality.

Art Writers Painters Expression
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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Art Passionate Man's Grasp
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Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.

Art Murder Words Heart
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Science disembodies; art embodies.

Science Art Embodies
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Bad art is always basically creepy; that is its first and most obvious identifying sign

Art Creepy First Sign
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What art ought to do is tell stories which are moment-by-moment wonderful, which are true to human experience, and which in no way explain human experience.

Art Stories Moment Human experience
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Art, of course, is a way of thinking, a way of mining reality.
Art Way Thinking Reality
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The final test of a work of art is not whether it has beauty, but whether it has power.

Work Art Beauty Power
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The excellence of every Art is its intensity.
Excellence Art Intensity
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I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression.

Like Design Details Self-expression
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I've seen beautiful art on the sides of buildings. I've seen beautiful art in museums. I've seen beautiful art in galleries. Beautiful art is everywhere.

Beautiful Art Museums Galleries
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I want my paintings to look like they were found in a garage. If they get a scratch or a hole in them, it just becomes part of the painting.

Paintings Garage Hole Part
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I'm using my art to comment on what I see. You don't have to agree with it

Art Comment See Agree
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A painting has to be beautiful. Even in its grotesqueness.

Painting Beautiful
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All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

Ideal Art False Visionary
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All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own.

Art Expression Delight God's work
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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
Art Study Positive reality Ideal truth
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All great art is praise

Great Art Praise
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PAINT the leaves as they grow! If you can paint one leaf, you can paint the world,

Paint Leaves Grow World
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All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.

Art Dirtying Paper Delicately
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What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.

Art Space Breathing Spirit
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Contemporary art hates you.

Contemporary Art Hates
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Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity – and I don’t mean simple – it’ll be good, and the public will know it.

Art Emotion Simplicity Good
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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.

Art Life Short Success
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Art is an elastic sort of love.

Art Elastic Love
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All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet -- it's your kid. It grows up and talks back to you.

Worthy work Author Art Kid
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The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt.

Ideal art Noblest Life Doubt
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Art is the highest expression of the human spirit.
Art Expression Human spirit
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Tragedy is the highest form of art.

Tragedy Form Art
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Art is about freedom of expression, and should not be molded to fit any propaganda or lofty ideal.

Art Freedom Expression Ideal
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Everybody's an art critic.

Everybody's Art Critic
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Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.

Feel Art Better Way
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Serious art is born from serious play.

Serious Art Born Play
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Making art has taught me that the tiniest smidgen of progress is something to be cherished.

Art Progress Cherished
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Creativity - like human life itself - begins in the dark

Creativity Human Life Dark
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Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.

Mystery Heart Creativity Surprise
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No matter what your age or your life path, whether making art is your career or your hobby or your dream, it is not too late or too egotistical or too selfish or too silly to work on your creativity.

Life Art Dream Creativity
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Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite -- getting something down.

Art Thinking Opposite
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Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.

Judging Efforts Artist Abuse
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Creativity occurs in the moment, and in the moment we are timeless.

Creativity Moment Timeless
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