Top 496 Art Quotes

Comics as art. I do comics as comics, and my opportunity to tell stories. Simple. Basic. Let the characters have the excitement, not the package. That's where I come from.

'The Author' is subtly unflinching in its satirical attack on certain practices in the creation of art and the mediation of violence.

Japanese people accept that art and commerce will be blended; and, in fact, they are surprised by the rigid and pretentious Western hierarchy of 'high art.'

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

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

Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.

Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.

At Stanford, we teach 'design thinking' - that is, we put together small, interdisciplinary groups to figure out what the true needs are and then to apply the art of engineering to serve them.

I don't watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

There is a constant ebb and flow in art historical reputations. The reputation of even the greatest figures like Picasso are in flux.