Georges Braque Quotes

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.

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

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.

But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.

The key to good art is to make something that means something to you.

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

I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.

It's clever, but is it Art?

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.

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.

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

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

We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art.

All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

I think all art - if it's good - is a result of really trying to create something that you can't put into words. Where language ends is where good art begins.

Art is a gift and if nobody hears it, that doesn't make it any less of a gift.

Art is a mystery. A mystery is something immeasurable.

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.

Shall I tell you what I think are the two qualities of a work of art? First, it must be indescribable, and second, it must be inimitable.

In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that cannot be explained.

All bad art is the result of good intentions.