Famous Quotes About art

No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.