Erno Rubik Quotes

When art wins, everyone wins.

Great art should be shown with great excitement.

Art is the ultimate luxury good, but one that can make you think, give a you a blast of beauty and enhance your life. Even if the work's made of plasticine.

Art should not be an easy thing.

When you walk past a painting in a museum, if it doesn't make you feel something, then it's probably a failure.

If buying art is to matter to us deeply, then it has to engage with our emotions and bring something to what one might as well, and with no supernatural associations whatsoever, call our souls.

Once people write criticism about something - and even in 1967 I was far from alone - they're assuming it's art, and art is supposed to last.

I feel that the arts have an impact in a way that just makes the world more beautiful.

It's strange, but something about lack of structure needs a structure itself. Otherwise, after a while, it's like looking at a Rothko painting or a Peter Greenaway film. You think, 'OK, I want to see something else now.'

I think that one of the most important things that art can do is give you a reason to look at something, almost give you permission to look at something.

If gaming were seen as an art, the important question would be not whether games are good for us but whether they are good, full stop.

Any piece of art has the potential to emotionally touch you and nudge you.

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'.

I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.

Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense.

Art, if it is successful, needs no explanation.

Works of art must persist as objects of contemplation.

Nothing touches a work of art so little as criticism.

There's no connection between consumption of art and moral stamina at all.

Art is something that nobody laughs at and nobody makes any money out of is the attitude, which I would dispute.

Bad art is never really enjoyed in the same sense in which good art is enjoyed. It is only "liked": it never startles, prostrates, and takes captive.

I want to make a picture that could stand on its own, regardless of what it was a picture of. I've never been a bit interested in the fact that this was a picture of a blues musician or a street corner or something.

Nothing so resembles a daub as a masterpiece.

I'll buy a bottle for anyone who can tell me what makes a picture beautiful!

Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense. A hill or tree cannot make a good painting just because it is a hill or tree. It is lines and colors put together so that they may say something.