“I believe art is utterly important. It is one of the things that could save us. We don't have to rely totally on experience if we can do things in our imagination.... It's the only way in which you can live more lives than your own. You can escape your own time, your own sensibility, your own narrowness of vision.” IfsWayBelieveArtImportantI BelieveCan DoImaginationVisionArt IsRelySensibility Author:Mary Oliver
“The study of art is a lifetime matter. The best any artist can do is to accumulate all the knowledge possible of art and its principles, study nature often and then practice continually.” ArtMatterArtistCan DoPrinciplesKnowledgePracticeStudyArt IsLifetime Author:Edgar Alwin Payne
“Making an art out of your technological life is the way to solve the problem of technology...Art is anything that you can do well. Anything that you can do with Quality.” WayWellsArtProblemLife IsCan DoQualityCreativityTechnologyArt IsSolveTechnological Author:Robert M. Pirsig
“The most immoral and disgraceful and dangerous thing that anybody can do in the arts is knowingly to feed back to the public its own ignorance and cheap tastes.” ArtCan DoDangerousIgnoranceTasteArt IsEntertainmentImmoralDangerous ThingsDisgraceful Book:Memoirs of Hecate County Source: Memoirs of Hecate County
“I don't make art with grandiose delusions. I do know there are limits to what art is capable of. That makes it all the more appealing to me. And I can do as I will whenever I choose.” KnowsArtI CanCan DoLimitsCapableArt IsDelusionGrandiose Author:Raymond Pettibon
“What really drives me mad about art is that, in America, the only thing you can do is to take it apart.” ArtAmericaCan DoArt IsMad Author:M.I.A.
“All art is a gift. It is first of all a gift that the maker can do it. It is then a gift to someone else, whether they pay for it or not. The wonder of it is that we cannot get the production of these gifts stopped. Art is life seeking itself. It is our intractable expressions of love for the beauties, ideas and epiphanies we regularly find. I framed the painting. It's now hanging in our den. "I have walked this earth for 30 years, and, out of gratitude, want to leave some souvenir.” WantYearsFirstsArtIdeasEarthCan DoPayWonderPaintingExpressionGratitudeArt IsProductionsSeekingMakersEpiphanyFramedDensSouvenirsExpressions Of Love Author:Vincent Van Gogh
“What fiction and art can do, particularly narrative art, is construct consciousness - in a sense, we have to do it for the first time, every time.” FirstsArtCan DoConsciousnessFictionArt IsFirst TimeNarrativeConstructsNarrative Art Author:Aleksandar Hemon
“When I was a kid, I did martial arts because boxing wasn't really available on Long Island. I think now kids are able to begin boxing earlier. So it's great and whatever can promote the sport on a whole is a good thing. And if we can do it on Long Island, where I am from, it's a beautiful thing.” IfsThinkingLongArtWholeKidsAbleBeautifulSportsCan DoArt IsGood ThingsAvailableIslandsBoxingMartial ArtsBeautiful ThingsLong Island Author:Chris Algieri
“The spiritual in my art is giving up control. My paintings are based on what I can do, and what I can do is not controlled. So I give up control, and that's the spiritual aspect of the work - taking what comes and relinquishing control. Although they look very controlled, they're really not, because it's all poured paint.” GivingLooksArtI CanSpiritualCan DoPaintingGiving UpArt IsAspectPaintControlledRelinquishingRelinquishing ControlGiving Up Control Author:Pat Steir
“The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level.” ArtCan DoLevelsArt IsExistentialismWorks Of ArtExistential Author:Jerry Saltz
“The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us in all its glory and its occasional nastiness, not through argument but through feeling, and then to close the gap between you and everything that is not you, and in this way pass from feeling to meaning. It's not something that committees can do. It's not a task achieved by groups or by movements. It's done by individuals, each person mediating in some way between a sense of history and an experience of the world.” WorldWayPersonsArtDoneWholeFeelingsIndividualCan DoGroupsMovementProjectsGloryArt IsArgumentTasksGapsCommitteesOccasionalNastiness Author:Robert Hughes