Art Quotes

The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.

Stanley Kubrick

Sultan Beyazid considered his father's art collection decadent and ordered it sold at auction.

Stephen Kinzer

Since German reunification in 1990, historians and researchers have been free to work in the East, where the lost Nazi art collection disappeared.

Stephen Kinzer

One thing that took a while to really adjust to was, you do it for the the art, for the money, for being together and having a good time, but you do it for all those people out there who really care about the show. We are now talking about a show we ...

Steve Kanaly

We go see theater, we take in art, because it makes us feel.

Steve Kazee

I didn't do so well in the academic world, so I think the only way I could express myself was through visual art - anything I could get my hands on, whether it was glassblowing, sculpture, painting, or photography. I always wanted to be a painter. Or...

Steven Klein

In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.

Sallust

You know, I just don't believe that art is supposed to make sense. I really don't think it's supposed to be analyzed to death. It's left to the listener or looker to get what they can get from it.

Shelby Lynne

I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.

Shia LaBeouf

A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.

Sol LeWitt

I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art.

Sol LeWitt

The system is the work of art; the visual work of art is the proof of the System. The visual aspect can't be understood without understanding the system. It isn't what it looks like but what it is that is of basic importance.

Sol LeWitt

Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little.

Sol LeWitt

Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of my involvement with public art is a continuation of wall drawings.

Sol LeWitt

Also, since art is a vehicle for the transmission of ideas through form, the reproduction of the form only reinforces the concept. It is the idea that is being reproduced. Anyone who understands the work of art owns it. We all own the Mona Lisa.

Sol LeWitt

I didn't want to save art - I respected the older artists too much to think art needed saving. But I knew it was finished, even though, at that time, I didn't know what I would do.

Sol LeWitt

During the '70s I was interested in words and meaning as a way of making art.

Sol LeWitt

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

Sol LeWitt

Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.

Sol LeWitt

All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art.

Sol LeWitt

The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.

Sol LeWitt