Jimmy Page Quotes

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

Critics are more committed to the rules of art than artists are.

What I'm doing is art - it's low-brow art but there's a magic in that.

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.

I'd love more production houses to encourage artists to create what they want and not just churn things out.

I think people should just make art and let the art speak for itself.

All bad art is the result of good intentions.

The idea of content in art is today merely a hindrance, a nuisance, a subtle or not so subtle philistinism.

Art can be very political but that can't be the purpose of art, it can't be the driving force. It isn't with any of the books that I love, anyway.

Artists are free to push boundaries to make art. But when pushing boundaries is their only aim, the result is usually bad art.

We must grant the artist his subject, his idea, his donn´e: our criticism is applied only to what he makes of it.

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

What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

I have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful as you can.

I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.

As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true.

I don't think I'm making any great statements, and I certainly don't think I'm making art.

When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished.

I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work.

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.

I wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I?

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.