Frank Ocean Quotes

In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

It's amazing to see things that are suggested in the book fully developed and so brilliantly realized through the artistry of the designers.

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

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

There's a great difference between being popular and being an artist.

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

Every artistic form has its golden age, and unfortunately I think the golden age for whatever I do probably ended about 1990.

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

It's all about the art. It's not about getting on TV or not getting on TV.

He who excels in his art so as to carry it to the utmost height of perfection of which it is capable may be said in some measure to go beyond it: his transcendent productions admit of no appellations.

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

O painter, take care lest the greed for gain prove a stronger incentive than renown in art, for to gain this renown is a far greater thing than is the renown of riches.

Museums are important. Design and art schools are important because they show how it should be done at the highest level of quality. Once people are exposed to quality, they recognize it right away and they appreciate it. People's tastes are changed by exposure to quality. Unless they can see it they can't want it. That's the brilliance of Apple - they provide quality in design.

In art, 'good enough' is not good enough.

I don’t shout the loudest, and I’m quite shy, which was why I was reluctant to throw myself into the public eye. I love beauty, craftsmanship, storytelling and romance, and I probably don’t have the armor to survive the relentless competition that exists in this particular world. But I have my own toughness.

I'm surprised when the work appears beautiful, and very pleased. And I think work can be very good and very successful without being able to call it beautiful, although I'm not clear about that. The work is good when it has a certain completeness; and when it's got a certain completeness, then it's beautiful.

To be an artist is not about fame; it's about art, which is this intangible thing that has got to have lots of integrity, whereas being famous doesn't really take any integrity. But I think you have to admit that you want to be famous, otherwise you can't be an artist. Art and fame together are like a desire to live forever.

The practice of any art demands more than 'mere savoir faire'. One must not only be in love with what one does, one must also know how to make love. In love self is obliterated. Only the beloved counts.

I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen.

O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives.

The arts are neglected because they are based on perception, and perception is disdained because it is not assumed to involve thought.

I'm in show business. I believe in illusion and delusions and in holding aloft the bubble of a dream of some sort because, really, there are lots of reasons to look at the chasm. But art and music, these ineffables, they're just - they're the consolations of what human beings can create and make, and delight is accessible, you know, should you care to find it.