Quotes about Art
I see no thread running through my work; I simply get on with my life and my painting.
— John Piper
Contemplating a purported work of art is a social activity. Either you have a rewarding time, or you don't. You don't have to say why afterward. You don't have to say anything.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius, or something very small, comes to the artist and says, "Here I am. Enflesh me. Give birth to me."
— Madeleine L'Engle
Documentation is misleading, because the performance is dead. So the very early works were not documented at all.
— Marina Abramovic
I am very present in my work and my work is somehow an expression of my soul, but at the same time I think that a writer cannot write out of nothing.
— Paulo Coelho
Your work speaks for you. Your art defines you.
— Oprah Winfrey
In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen.
— Oscar Wilde
In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art is a human act, a generous contribution, something that might not work, and it is intended to change the recipient for the better, often causing a connection to happen.
— Seth Godin
Some people, they've had a lot of fun, even if it was dumb fun and a shitty body of work.
— Stephen Malkmus
If an Artist love his Art for its own sake, he will delight in excellence wherever he meets it, as well in the work of another as in his own.
— Washington Allston
Well, I design costumes because I started with the theater in Chicago, but somehow a few lines just sort of fell to me to do it. And I studied it in school and I always liked it.
— John Malkovich