David Cage Quotes

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

The claims I'm making for art are simply the claims that we naturally make around music or around poetry. We're much more relaxed around those art forms. We're willing to ask, 'How could this find a place in my heart?'

You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.

Is the Mona Lisa an 'accurate' representation of the actual human model for the painting? Who knows? Who cares? It's a great piece of art. It moves us. It makes us wonder, makes us gape - finally makes us look inward at ourselves.

There's an audience for all kinds of great art.

Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts.

I like music because it's the only invisible art form.

When art wins, everyone wins.

Great art should be shown with great excitement.

I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.

I really appreciate anyone trying to inject art into mainstream film.

Art is often valuable precisely because it isn't a sensible way to make money.

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism.

It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism.

A painting is like a man. If you can live without it, then there isn't much point in having it.

There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence.

Poetry is not mainstream, but then neither is serious fiction, really. But I don't think there's a lot to worry about in this particular 'problem'. Why does art have to be mainstream to be significant?

Poetry is a pure meritocracy. There's no room for ambiguity: either a poem moves you and opens up new vistas in life, or it doesn't. It's completely objective, and the best always rise to the top.

You can't make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can't make a perfect painting.

A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.

Especially in the world today, where science rightfully is so important in terms of technology, innovation, telecom, Internet, fighting diseases, I think it's equally important that poetry and painting have their share of support.

But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.

In England, there is a dividing line between artists and illustrators, who are thought inferior to painters. Well, that's absolute rubbish. Some of the most creative work is being done in children's books. In Japan, everything is art. They don't say painting is better than ceramics or dress design.

Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

Summoning artists to participate In the august occasions of the state Seems something artists ought to celebrate A golden age of poetry and power Of which this noonday's the beginning hour.