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Art Quotes
"We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness."
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"I made some salt and pepper shakers a while back and waited three years for them to come."
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"One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience."
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"The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding."
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"To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom."
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"If advertising is not an official or state art, it is nonetheless clearly art."
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"Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some."
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"Mars is really different, into art. Lydia Lunch is more energy. James Chance is more commercial in a different way, in funk and jazz. They were all doing original things, trying to create their own sound and music. I think they're all great."
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"Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again."
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"Rem tene, verba sequentur: grasp the subject, and the words will follow. This, I believe, is the opposite of what happens with poetry, which is more a case of verba tene, res sequenter: grasp the words, and the subject will follow."
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"Remember that you don't write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character."
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"No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition."
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"I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot."
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"Photographs are very interesting, and you can look into them a million times and still find a new meaning in them, something in the past that was caught in the film itself."
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"Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know."
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"A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it."
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"Art exists for the human species. I think that all of the people who love art, those who teach art, and all of you should burn with the obligation to save the world."
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"The effort really to see and really to represent is no idle business in face of the constant force that makes for muddlement. The great thing is indeed that the muddled state too is one of the very sharpest of the realities, that it also has color and form and character, has often in fact a broad and rich comicality."
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"Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it. To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination."
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"The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness."
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"It's fun having songs about parties and gigolos, but I really wanted to use my music as a form of art. Art is supposed to spark conversation and make people think, and I wanted to do that with this song."
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"A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them. There is no such thing as bad art."
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"What are all these writers fighting for? For their own victory or for the victory of their profession?"
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"Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed."
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"Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing."
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"Those who still think listening isn't an art should see if they can do it half as well."
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"Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something."
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"Photographs that depict suffering shouldn't be beautiful, as captions shouldn't moralize."
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"I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work."
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"Wanton stars galloped neighing like unicorns in blue meadows."
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"While pensive poets painful vigils keep,Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep."
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"Which implies that the real issue in art is the audience's response. Now I claim that when I make things, I don't care about the audience's response, I'm making them for myself. But I'm making them for myself as audience, because I want to wake myself up."
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