Edgar Degas Quotes

This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother.

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

Art is a severe business; most serious when employed in grand and sacred objects. The artist stands higher than art, higher than the object. He uses art for his purposes, and deals with the object after his own fashion.

Art! What a concept! It saved my life! A place where you can do as you please!

All art is based on non-conformity.

Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.

Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

My allegiance was always to the act. I wanted them to be happy. I wasn't owned by a magazine or a record label. And I was a very naughty boy to boot!

To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.

We feel more and more intensely about the music we make. It's unexpected, and not always what you would think of in Beach House. It's all art in the end. We aren't making records because we have to; it's because it's what we want to express.

If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art.

There's this feeling of creativity in Iceland.

Art has always been and is in its very essence the boldest departure from nature. It is the bridge into the spirit world.

Art is not a democracy, in fact art is the enemy of democracy

If life were organized, there would be no need for art.

Didacticism is the death of art.

Without freedom there is no art.

Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art.

Art doesn't go to sleep in the bed made for it. It would sooner run away than say its own name: what it likes is to be incognito. Its best moments are when it forgets what its own name is.

The moment we live in is a great time to make art. We have different technologies to play with, and we're left with the opportunity to focus on our work.

All artists are anarchists in some way - some more extreme than others, but it's something that I think artists are supposed to do. We're supposed to present a different angle on everything, and I certainly think it is [art] as much as poetry, in my opinion.

Art is like a fart for the soul. Better out than in.

Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one's self to an idea.