Rudyard Kipling Quotes

Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.

Art is anything you can get away with.

I have to say that I reject somewhat the distinction between something called art and something called public art. I think all art demands and desires to be seen.

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

Not all art is great; most of it's rubbish.

I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

There is nothing new in art except talent.

Art is a habit-forming drug. Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth. People always speak of it with this great, religious reverence, but why should it be so revered?

Art is anything people do with distinction.

People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.

The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

For many artists and critics, beauty is a discredited idea. It denotes the saccharine sylvan scenes and cheesy melodies that appealed to Granny.

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. The size of the project means little in art, beyond the money matter. It is the quality of the character that really counts.

A work of art rests its merits in traditional qualities. It may constitute a remarkable feat in craftsmanship; it may be a searching study of psychological states; it may be a nostalgic glance backward; it may be any one of an infinite number of concepts, none of which may have any possible bearing upon its degree of newness.

The only enemy of art is taste.

Art has got nothing to do with taste.

You don't base records on success; you base it on creativity.

I think music can definitely be art; I also think music can be crap and not be art.

Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.

Throwing money at something doesn't really create - forgive me that onerous word - art.

Now, there are so many movies, so many festivals, and so many awards going on, each judged with each other, like your work is worse than others and that's not fair. How can you tell what's best and what's worst from these awards? We're talking about art.

Architecture is invention.

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 make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.