Piet Mondrian Quotes

Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.

We believed that there's no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is art. If it's bad, it's something else. It was a much, much harder line in the '50s and '60s than it is now, because the idea of art education didn't exist - they didn't have a fine arts program when I was a kid.

How do I define a work of art? It is not an asset in the stock-exchange sense, but a man's timid attempt to repeat the miracle that the simplest peasant girl is capable of at any time, that of magically producing life out of nothing.

We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth.

We do not judge great art. It judges us.

The value of art is in the observer.

To create a work of art is to create the world.

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

I think the point of art is to be controversial in a lot of ways. It's to cause conversations, and it's to get people excited about and talking about the things that the films are about.

We're all going about trying to make beauty in the world and trying to make order out of chaos. And that's what art is.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.

The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.

Art is truth.

Burzum is not a political or religious band, or even an anti-religious band. Burzum is music - art if you like - and the interpretation of art lies in the eye of the beholder.

Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.

I approach my music-making as an art-form--something pure from the spirit to which I can add dynamics and marketable reality. Music is genuine and healthy and the stimulation I get from molding it and adding dynamics is like nothing else on earth.

Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden. It is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

There are people who buy pictures because they were difficult to do, and are done. Such pictures are often only a record of pain and dull perseverance. Great works of art should look as though they were made in joy. Real joy is a tremendous activity, dull drudgery is nothing to it.

For me taking a pragmatic decision when it comes to art is almost an oxymoron. The reason I first picked up a pen and wrote a story had nothing pragmatic in it.

Even luxuries are arranged according to ideas and ideals, to make them reflect as much of thought-life as possible - and this is Art.

...combining the concrete and the universal is at the center of what makes art important.