Quotes about art
art gardening criticism
The art critics on some of Britain's newspapers could as easily have been assigned gardening or travel, and been cheerfully employed for life. Charles Saatchi
artist sharks oil
There are no rules about investment. Sharks can be good. Artist's dung can be good. Oil on canvas can be good.
art needs buying
Artists need a lot of collectors, all kinds of collectors, buying their art.
art shows
I primarily buy art to show it off.
art people work-out
Few people in contemporary art demonstrate much curiosity. The majority spend their days blathering on, rather than trying to work out why one artist is more interesting than another, or why one picture works and another doesn't.
artist one-day sometimes
Who's to say what will one day appear to have been trendsetting? Sometimes artists who receive breathless acclaim initially, seem to conk out. Other artists who don't register so keenly at the time, prove to be trailblazers.
art wake-up waking
I regularly find myself waking up to art I passed by or simply ignored.
art believe next-day
I liked working in advertising, but don't believe my taste in art, such as it is, was entirely formed by TV commercials. And I don't feel especially conflicted enjoying a Mantegna one day, a Carl Andre the next day and a brash student work the next.
art years may
I may not be much good at most things, but if I didnt have the pleasure of planning and installing shows, and doing it better than anyone else, I would have stopped buying art many years ago.
art what-matters insignificant-things
Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art.
art zero order
I don't buy art in order to leave a mark or to be remembered; clutching at immortality is of zero interest to anyone sane.
art believe dark
If I stop being on good behaviour for a moment, my dark little secret is that I don't actually believe many people in the art world have much feeling for art and simply cannot tell a good artist from a weak one, until the artist has enjoyed the validation of others - a received pronunciation.
art found-objects sculpture
Found objects, chance creations, ready-mades (mass-produced items promoted into art objects, such as Duchamp's "Fountain"-urinal as sculpture) abolish the separation between art and life. The commonplace is miraculous if rightly seen. Charles Simic
art america soul
Making art in America is about saving one's soul.
art hard-work generations
Every work of science great enough to be well remembered for a few generations affords some exemplification of the defective state of the art of reasoning of the time when it was written; and each chief step in science has been a lesson in logic. Charles Sanders Peirce
art doubt pragmatists
The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which hs to be acquired with difficulty.
art political inevitable
The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
art names government
An important art of politicians is to find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the public.
art men firsts
The art of putting the right men in the right places is first in the science of government; but that of finding places for the discontented is the most difficult.
art men law
For the man of talent affects to call his transgressions of the laws of sense trivial and to count them nothing considerd with his devotion to his art. Charles Ives
art reality substance
You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.
art live-life thinking
There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.
art anger order
Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also. Charles Horton Cooley
art failure creative
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
art exposure visuals
My exposure to visual art all my life was intensive. Charles Gwathmey
art college looks
Look to the Classics, History, to the Arts, for there is truth. Look away from the systems, the processes, the techniques. Charles Guggenheim
art people soul
I'm a huge fan of animation, and just the arts in general - anything that emanates from someone's mind and soul and is capable of touching other people's minds and souls. Charles Fleischer
art select has-beens
Traditionally, art has been for the select few. Bob Ross
artist people different
We artists are a different breed of people. We're a happy bunch.
artist known
There are thousands of very, very talented artists who will never be known, even after they are dead.
artist people different
People might look at you a bit funny, but it's okay. Artists are allowed to be a bit different.
art voice creating
Cinema informed my painting by the sheer geography - on locations, there is so much downtime. And when you're spending all this time creating art by committee, the concept of the singular voice is a pleasant antidote. Billy Zane
art looks television
I'm delighted with it, because it used to be that films were the lowest form of art. Now we've got something to look down on. Billy Wilder