Art Is Quotes

I was getting paid for my art, because I was always an under-achiever.

Art is its own excuse, and it's either Art or it's something else. It's either a poem or a piece of cheese.

Art is all in the details.

Every form of art is another way of seeing the world. Another perspective, another window. And science - that's the most spectacular window of all. You can see the entire universe from there.

Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms.

An ad that pretends to be art is – at absolute best – like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you.

Art is all about the experience. I could say I dont really relate to opera, but then you watch Placido Domingo, and you go, Blimey, look at that.

The great thing about the arts is that you can only learn to do it by doing it.

Art is apotheosis; Often, the complaint of beauty.

The earth without art is just eh.

Art is a mystery. A mystery is something immeasurable.

Art is the supreme communicator of diverse cultures and ideas in a common frame of understanding, a virtual bridge across time. It is also the universal link into genius.

Art is for [the Irish] inseparable from artifice: of that, the theatre is the home. Possibly, it was England made me a novelist.

Art is meant to strike us with Reality, not allow us to hide from it.

Art is so personal. I'm very comforted by the fact that certain movies that I love, other people hate. Certain books that I love, other people hate. You can't please everybody.

The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.

Perhaps the least cheering statement ever made on the subject of art is that life imitates it.

Art is man added to Nature.

Art is about people. I think the discussion about whether architecture is art or not is lamebrain.

Our art is a way of being dazzled by truth: the light on the grotesquely grimacing retreating face is true, and nothing else.

Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.

The true end of Art is not to imitate a fixed material condition, but to represent a living motion.

Art is not a democracy. People don't get to vote on how it ends.

I'm convinced that, in the end, art is not for the artist but for their fellow man.

Art is dedicated echo.

I don't know what Art is but I know some things it isn't when I see them.

Art is the ideal medium for making contact with the transcendental, or at least for getting close to it.

Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.

The love of the art is what keeps me going. It's that sound that runs through my bones.

I do think all art is autobiographical, and I do think I know quite a bit about women. I don't know anything about men.

Art is a weapon for me, with which I can strike back.

Art is hard for a puritan to understand.

The talent is always there and art is cyclical. I’m optimistic.

Art is not to do with the practical side of making a living. It's to live a fuller human life.

Art is a continuous activity with no separation between past and present.

Art is to make our lives richer and fuller.

Art is something given, not reproduced... the painter paints what he sees with his innermost senses, the expression of his being... for him every other impression becomes an inner expression.

Art is by nature promotional, pushing beliefs, broadcasting status, aggrandizing personalities.

No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody.

Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.

Art is not great. Music is not great. It's just that they tickle us. When one steadfastly refuses greatness - then and then only can the wonderful thing we call art be created.

Nature is always mysterious and secret in her use of means; and art is always likest her when it is most inexplicable.

Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.

Thus art is not an object, it is an experience.

Music and art is about ideas, I think. Especially music. You have the freedom to work with your ideas and your dreams and your fantasies, which is quite hard to do in many other places.

Art is living stopped for a moment of wonder.

Art is always, even at its most repulsive, an impassioned cry of love.

Whatever else art is good for, its chief effectiveness lies in propagating more art.

The scope of art is practically boundless; it does not begin and end with the painting of pictures and the modeling of statues; where there is room for workmanship there is room for it.

Art is foremost a state of mind, and only secondarily a problem of form.