Art Quotes

In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul

Albert Camus

I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

Marshall McLuhan

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.

John Lennon

Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Neal Cassady

I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.

Damien Hirst

I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.

Quentin Tarantino

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

John Ciardi

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

George Santayana

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Jean Arp

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

David Herbert Lawrence

I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.

Salma Hayek

I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.

Sydney Pollack

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

Novalis

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

Peter De Vries

Much good art got made while money ruled I like a lot of it, and hardship and poverty aren't virtues. The good news is that, since almost no one will be selling art, artists - especially emerging ones - won't have to think about turning out a consistent style or creating a brand. They'll be able to experiment as much as they want.

Jerry Saltz

The individual, the great artist when he comes, uses everything that has been discovered or known about his art up to that point, being able to accept or reject in a time so short it seems that the knowledge was born with him, rather than that he tak

Ernest Hemingway

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

JeanLuc Godard

It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn't in the middle of the room. Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.

Stephen King

I see 30 to 40 gallery shows a week, and no matter what kind of mood I'm in, no matter how bad the art is, I almost always feel better afterward. I can learn as much from bad art as from good.

Jerry Saltz

The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.

Jackson Pollock