Explore Quotes on Art

You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.

Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars.

People think that the arts are optional and they aren't. They teach a level of emotional depth that's equally important to mathematic skill. You can replace some math skills with a calculator if you know how to operate the thing, but there's no calculator for human interaction.

But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.

Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.

In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.

Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .

I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.

Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.

A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

When you create art, the world has to wait.

Why do people want to know exactly who I am? Am I a poet? Am I this or that? I've always made people wary. First they called me a rock poet. Then I was a poet that dabbled in rock. Then I was a rock person who dabbled in art.

Hopefully if you create something fine, people will relate to it, so you're communicating with people, and you're not in a void. On the other hand, because you're always creating and transforming, art always separates you - always.