Art Quotes

“There's a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There's a lot of sex, you know, in art. There's a lot of naked women and men, and there's intrigue, there's fakery. It's a real microcosm of the larger world.”

-- Steve Martin

“The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.”

-- David Herbert Lawrence

“The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.”

-- Carl Rogers

“Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War II and was all but done for by 1960 (although visit any art school today and you'll find a would-be Willem de Kooning).”

-- Jerry Saltz

“The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.”

-- John Lasseter

“Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.”

-- David Bailey

“You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.”

-- Steve Martin

“I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.”

-- Shia LaBeouf

“I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.”

-- Francis Ford Coppola

“Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.”

-- Andre Maurois