Art Quotes

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

All great art is born of the metropolis.

When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour, so even when you're using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that's technology.

Painting and writing are solitary arts.

A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.