Quotes on Art

Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life.

It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles.

If gaming were seen as an art, the important question would be not whether games are good for us but whether they are good, full stop.

I've always believed that as an artist, as a writer, you need a lot of contact with other people to make your art good.

Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.

Novel writing is the slowest art form in the world. It is not a sprint. It is not even a marathon. It is a series of marathons that stretch over and over across a continent.

I believe art is utterly important. It is one of the things that could save us.

There have to be moments when you glimpse something decent, something life-affirming even in the most twisted character. That's where the real art lies. See, I always suspect characters who are painted as lovely, decent human beings. I would always question where the darkness lies.

As much as I love art, there is no art as fine as the world we have been given.

Eroticism is born at a time in civilisation when sexual instinct becomes deanimalised and enriched with contributions from art and from literature. A world of theatricality emerges around the act of love.

I'm very much of the opinion that theatre is a collective art form, not just one person's vision.

'Art or anti-art?' was the question I asked when I returned from Munich in 1912 and decided to abandon pure painting or painting for its own sake. I thought of introducing elements alien to painting as the only way out of a pictorial and chromatic dead end.

What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It's not what you see that is art; art is the gap.

If your choice enters into it, then taste is involved - bad taste, good taste, uninteresting taste. Taste is the enemy of art, A-R-T.

My art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others.

Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly done, but as a social manifestation, the critical eye becomes clairvoyant.

Art is going to make a bigger comeback than ever. That's the upside to things getting challenging.

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.

If art can be at the service of anything, it's about letting us see a state of grace for those people who rarely get to be able to be seen that way.

I began to exercise a lot of cinematic muscle with the precepts I had learned in the New York art world. Film was intriguing. I began to think of art as elitist; film was not.

And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and to new consciousness, and expand our senses, our perception, our intelligence, our sensibility, then they will become interested in this music.