Top 1499 Art Quotes

Art is such a personal experience, I really try to make my own thing.

I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.

I love that works of art are printed so that anyone can buy them. The variety of what they put on little postcards astounds me.

Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death.

Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist.

The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it.

Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art.

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.

The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I've been thinking about that a lot.

It's been fun. I've had a lucky life. Art has made me pull the best out of myself.