Art Quote by Robert Longo Download Open image “An artist should know art history. Shock value only lasts so long.” — Robert Longo ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Art history Artist Knows Lasts Long Shock Shock value Should Values
A work of art has value only if tremors of the future run through it... — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
When art becomes merely shock value, our sense of humanity is slowly degraded. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time. — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
To me, if there is any sort of value added to the accumulation of knowledge over time, then the work of artists should be… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
There's nothing shocking inherently about that, given that so much of the way that artists are taught is by copying old master paintings. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Once artists are expected to shock, it's that much harder for them to do so. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Art lives and dies in the unique heart of he who carries it, just as all feelings only live and expand in the souls… — Marianne von Werefkin Copy Share Image
The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself. — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
The translation process becomes a highly subjective thing - turning reds and blues into black-and-whiteness. It's really bizarre for me. — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
I always imagine that I want to make art that is going to kill you,whether it’s going to do it visually or physically, I’ll… — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
My degree was in sculpture. I always think that drawing is a sculptural process. I always feel like I'm carving the image out rather… — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
I've been dealing with epic images, and I realized all of a sudden that I grew up in the age of epics. — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
I think the pursuit of trying to understand things is really a critical issue. I see the issue of life and death in everything… — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
An artist can have an intention, but the viewer has their own subjective experience. — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
I'm trying to find answers. It can be quite frustrating, but at the same time, I'm never quite satisfied with what I'm doing, so… — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
Dying young is the easy way out. It's much harder to keep your edge and keep it going. — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
When I look back on everything I've done, it all somehow makes sense to me. But it doesn't make sense when you're actually doing… — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
One of the interesting things I discovered is that in the late 19th century, painters actually had black-and-white copies made of their own paintings.… — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
I can't come up with the titles. My wife hates my titles. She doesn't even want to know about them. — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
