More Art Quotations And Sayings

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“The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.”
– Anton Chekhov

“The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible”
– William S. Burroughs

“Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn’t give you what you desire – it tells you how to desire.”
– Slavoj Zizek

“An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have.”
– Andy warhol

“We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.”
– Henry James

“If it weren’t for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.”
– Jasper Fforde

“After a few months in my parents‘ basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations. ”
– David Sedaris

“Because when you love something, you want to do it all the time, even if no one is paying you for it. At least that’s how I felt about drawing.”
– Meg Cabot

“Art is making something out of nothing, and selling it.”

– Frank Zappa

“Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. ”
– Susan Sontag

“Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not”
– John Keats

“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.”
– Pablo Picasso

“Some people are born to make great art and others are born to appreciate it. . . . It’s a kind of talent in itself, to be an audience, whether you are a spectator in the gallery or you are listening to the voice of the world’s greatest soprano. Not everyone can be an artist. There have to be those who witness the art, who love and appreciate what they have been privileged to see.”
– Ann Patchett

“The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.”
– Banksy

“God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.”
– Pablo Picasso

“For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.”
– Orson Welles

“To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.”
– Criss Jami

“I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.”
– Frank lloyd Webber

“A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.”
– Jorge Luis Borges

“Love art in yourself, and not yourself in art.”
– Constantine Stanislavaski

“A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.”
– Vladimir Nabokov

“Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history, etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the ‘creative bug’ is just a wee voice telling you, ‘I’d like my crayons back, please.”
– Hugh Macloed

“Modern paintings are like women, you’ll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.”
– freddie mercury

“Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.”
– Pope John Paul 2

“If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.”
– Pablo Picasso

“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”
– Emile Zola

“I don’t think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great – I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had.”
– Vincent Van Gogh

“Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but production.”
– Raymond Chandler

“Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.”
– Claude Monet

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