Famous Quotes About art

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.

Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

Art saved me it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.

Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.

Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa.