Top 496 Art Quotes

But every single damn thing matters! Only we don't realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don't realize that's a lie.

But every single damn thing matters! Only we don't realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don't realize that's a lie.

Roberto Bolano

First of all, to do performance art, you really have to give 100 percent. I only know that I have to give 100 percent and then what happens, happens.

First of all, to do performance art, you really have to give 100 percent. I only know that I have to give 100 percent and then what happens, happens.

Marina Abramovic

A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.

A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.

Joshua Reynolds

It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today it's energy. It's the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see.

Josef Albers

Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.

Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.

Josef Albers

I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it was not so much for the development of artists. But we had there terribly stiff training.

I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it was not so much for the development of artists. But we had there terribly stiff training.

Josef Albers

In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.

In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.

Josef Albers

Serious art has been the work of individual artists whose art has had nothing to do with style because they were not in the least connected with the style or the needs of the masses. Their work arose rather in defiance of their times.

Franz Marc

I think if you're good at art, you'll be good at most types of art.

I think if you're good at art, you'll be good at most types of art.

Grimes

For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.

For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.

Vidal Sassoon

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