Art Quotes

Art is, for me, the process of trying to wake up the soul. Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep.

Bill Viola

A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place for things to, literally, come together.

Bill Viola

You are just as qualified as any expert to make a judgment and have a feeling or a response to any work of art.

Bill Viola

The future art historians are going to be software guys who are going to go into the depths of the code to find out what was changed hundreds of years before.

Bill Viola

Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star.

Barry White

And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.

Beatrice Wood

But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.

Beatrice Wood

I think the sensation of being moved by a piece of art is something that is really good for a person's soul.

Ben Whishaw

Providence School of Art students used to sneak into P Funk concerts.

Bernie Worrell

In England, there is a dividing line between artists and illustrators, who are thought inferior to painters. Well, that's absolute rubbish. Some of the most creative work is being done in children's books. In Japan, everything is art. They don't say ...

Brian Wildsmith

I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.

Carl Andre

My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.

Carl Andre

At the end of the day, you want to be always the one that's one step ahead of everybody, and when it comes to hip-hop, culture and art, you want to be that signature guy.

Carmelo Anthony

Movies are collaborative, and that's part of what makes it a great experience. They're different from a lot of other art forms, but also it makes it seem like when you see the final product, you go, 'I wouldn't have done that. I wouldn't have done th...

Casey Affleck

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

Chinua Achebe

My position is that serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict. I don't see how art can be called art if its purpose is to frustrate humanity.

Chinua Achebe

I don't think there is such a thing as being too raunchy when it comes to the art form of burlesque.

Christina Aguilera

I've always thought of the book as a visual art form, and it should represent a single artistic idea, which it does if you write your own material.

Chris Van Allsburg

I think most people agree there is a component of skill in art making; you have to learn grammar before you learn how to write.

Chris Van Allsburg

It seems to me that not only the writing in most children's books condescends to kids, but so does the art. I don't want to do that.

Chris Van Allsburg

I've always loved movies, art and clothes.

Colleen Atwood