Things that bring out your emotions are what should be in theaters and in books. That's what art is. It makes you feel things.
In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.
I actually love physics, but art is where I thought I could make a difference for my country.
Most museums in Moscow, like Tretyakov, were established by philanthropists, whose passion for art allowed the development of culture on many levels.
Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.
Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.
Sometimes words are not needed, and the simplicity of expressing yourself through an art form is one of the best ways of communication.
I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.
The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
Indeed, artists, particularly modern artists, have intentionally limited the scope and vocabulary of their expression to convey, as Mark Rothko and Ad Reinhardt do, the most essential, even spiritual, ideas of their art.
People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.
I'd like to make as much art as I possibly can before I die, so I'm working on a few things.
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art.
An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.
No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation.
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.
Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.
