Quotes about Art

Reporter lady: What's that color? John: Hm. I'd call this a color!

I believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to experience it and come away convinced on their own.

To interest is the first duty of art; no other excellences will ever begin to compensate for failure in this.

Art and the saints are the greatest apologetics for our faith.

Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

Pop music will never be low brow.

I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.

I now require this of all pictures, that they domesticate me, not that they dazzle me. Pictures must not be too picturesque. Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing. All great actions have been simple, and all great pictures are.