Art Quotes - Page 15

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they're having a piss.

The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.

The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Art is the proper task of life.

The beautiful is always bizarre.

Art is the reason I get up in the morning, but the definition ends there. It doesn't seem fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

Vital lives are about action. You can't feel warmth unless you create it, can't feel delight until you play, can't know serendipity unless you risk.

Bring something incomprehensible into the world!

Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.

The preparation of good food is merely another expression of art, one of the joys of civilized living…

I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to BE art.

One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.

I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.