Art Value Quotes

Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.

Now people look at 'The Scream' or Van Gogh's 'Irises' or a Picasso and see its new content: money. Auction houses inherently equate capital with value.

The modern world thinks of art as very important: something close to the meaning of life.

I'm extremely interested in art, every form of art, but I'm interested in it when it's good and interested in it when it's interesting.

I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.

When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.

I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

I don't like that whole "art should challenge you" thing. Because I don't feel like art actually does challenge you. I was a semiotics major at Brown, and there's this idea that stories are better, books are better, and movies are better if they cocked you off your axis and you were completely disoriented and you'd really have to rethink everything.

The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.

Believing that art is either worth a fortune or worth nothing at all.

Being critical of art is a way of showing art respect.

Art makes better humans, art is necessary in understanding the world and art makes people happy. Undeniably, art is not optional.

I like real art. It's difficult to define 'real' but it is the best word for describing what I like to get out of art and what the best art has. It has the ability to convince you that it's present - that it's there. You could say it's authentic... but real is actually a better word, broad as it may be.

You don't buy a Picasso because you love the frame.

I think all art is subjective - that whoever's watching it or listening to it will decide whether it's good or bad.

Ballet is important and significant - yes. But first of all, it is a pleasure.

Music is essentially useless, as is life.

You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same.

I want people to appreciate all the time and effort that I put into my art and my music.

Art is a subjective thing, and it should be a subjective thing. And the difficulty of subjectivity is that it becomes hugely problematized when you start applying large sums of money to art objects. That's where it all starts to get a bit sticky.

The ordinary bloke will not voluntarily pay for "art" that leaves him unmoved--if he does pay for it, the money has to be conned out of him, by taxes and such.

A work of art wastes away and becomes lustreless in surroundings where it has a price but not a value. It radiates only when surrounded by love. It is bound to wilt in a world where the rich have no time and the cultivated no money. But it never harmonizes with borrowed greatness.

I really just started buying art as a passion. I never considered it an investment, but it ended up being a good investment.

I wouldn't give five cents for all the art in the world.