Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.
Rudolf Arnheim
Man's striving for order, of which art is but one manifestation, derives from a similar universal tendency throughout the organic world; it is... →
The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of... →
I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, music, but there really isn't hip-hop film. So I... →
Darren Aronofsky
Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.
Jean Arp
Criticism really used to hurt me. Most of these critics are usually frustrated artists, and they criticise other people's art because they... →
Rosanna Arquette
It's so hard to be a mother and to also want to practice your art.
Art is such an important part of our culture.
I would wake up at night and think, 'What the hell have I gotten myself into? You don't want to do that!' But you gotta do something, and... →
Richard Artschwager
There isn't any art until some creature sees and consumes it. And has a reaction.