Rudy Giuliani Quotes

Art is not about objects of high monetary exchange. It's about reasserting our firsthand experience in present time.

The problem with art is, it's not like the game of golf where you put the ball in the hole. There's no umpire; there's no judge. There are no rules. It's one of its problems. But it's also one of the great things about art. It becomes a question of what lasts.

Art is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it.

The fact that cartoons are reproduced doesn't mean anything to me as far as whether they are "real art" or not.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.

Every artiste has a process.

I think it was Roger Fry who first coined what he took to be a final definition of a work of art, whether it was a painting, building, poem or Hepplewhite chair. He said that the best works of art are finished products that preserve 'a valuable state of mind'.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. It has nothing to do with the fact that other people want what they want.

I think the mystery of art lies in this, that artists’ relationship is essentially with their work — not with power, not with profit, not with themselves, not even with their audience.

Craft can get you through ninety percent of a piece, but it's art that carries you at the end.

If there was no risk, it wouldn't be art. It wouldn't be worth making. There is risk even in a fairy tale. Fiction is closest to pure narrative, and pure narrative is simply the logic we try to impose on an ever-changing reality.

Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.

Everything an artist spits is art.

Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.

Greatness in art is always a by-product.

I don't know what Art is but I know some things it isn't when I see them.

Creation is the artist's true function; where there is no creation there is no art.

Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.

Art happens when anyone in the world takes any kind of material and fashions it into a deliberate statement.

No art should be fashionable.

Making art has first of all to do with honesty. My first lesson was to see objectively, to erase all meaning of the thing seen. Then only could the real meaning of it be understood and felt.

If I was an artist, and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art.

The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.