Art Quotes

You train yourself in the art of being mysterious to everyone. My dear friend! What if there were no one, who cared about guessing your riddle, what pleasure would you then take in it?

Finding a master of the dark art of ninjutsu in modern westernized Japan seems as unlikely as finding an active practitioner of the magic of Merlin in contemporary industrialized England.

The reason that Apple is able to create products like iPad is because we always try to be at the intersection of technology and liberal arts, to be able to get the best of both.

Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuvering for advantageous positions.

Until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared

We cannot enter into alliances until we are acquainted with the designs of our neighbors. We are not fit to lead an army on the march unless we are familiar with the face of the country.

With regard to precipitous heights, if you are beforehand with your adversary, you should occupy the raised and sunny spots, and there wait for him to come up.

If this is long delayed, weapons are blunted and morale depressed.

In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory.

Hence the saying: The enlightened ruler lays his plans well ahead; the good general cultivates his resources.

Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never peril.

The consummate leader cultivates the moral law, and strictly adheres to method and discipline; thus it is in his power to control success.

War is a matter of vital importance to the state; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory that it be thoroughly studied.

Why are we willing to accept a new mathematical formula we don't understand as the product of a brilliant mind, while rejecting a new art form we don't understand as the product of a deranged mind?

The arts teach and moralise by their beauty alone, not by translating a philosophical or social formula. For the truly artistic person, painting has itself as it's purpose, which is quite enough.

To extract beauty from one's own milieu is one of the most difficult tasks of art.

Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom; that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years of age.

This is something essential to art: reception is never its goal. What counts for me is that my work provides material to reflect upon. Reflection is an activity.

The finest productions of human art are immensely short of the meanest work of Nature. The nicest artist cannot make a feather or the leaf of a tree.

It's dark already and I'm out here again, talking, telling the story to the quiet night.

Literature was intended to be dangerous. Art was meant to be dangerous. Ideas were nothing if they were not dangerous.

I believe that working independently will give artists the ability to communicate the full extent of their art and not just a piece of it that might sell.

You are only a young talent, but we don't know how old your soul is.

Growth is the goal, and that goal is never complete—art must be in constant change.

That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe.

The Steinway piano - with its beauty and power - is the perfect medium for expressing the performer's art, drama and poetry.

I have frequently stated that I regard chess as an art form, where creativity prevails over other factors.

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.

What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.

Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and truth.

You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.

I never intended to make art.

Art flows more easily when you are not thinking about what 'should' be in it or how it 'should' be done. The Impressionists taught us to look and see, not assume.

The most beautiful thing in the world is, precisely, the conjunction of learning and inspiration. Oh, the passion for research and the joy of discovery!

In place of an intensive cooperation among artists, there is a battle for goods. Hatred, partisanship, cliques, jealousy, and intrigues are the natural consequences of an aimless, materialist art.

The arts are encroaching one upon another, and from a proper use of this encroachment will rise the art that is truly monumental.

What is full of redundancy or formula is predictably boring. What is free of all structure or discipline is randomly boring. In between lies art.

Actors have no color. That's the art form.

Friendship, awareness, happiness, all of the arts of the good life, are brilliant beads strung on the golden cord of love.

Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.

The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.

Once, after finishing a picture, I thought I would stop for awhile, take a trip, do things-the next time I thought of this, I found five years had gone by.

First thought is best in Art, second in other matters.

Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.

Writing is a craft not an art.

I prefer being wrong in my own way to being right in someone else's.

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.

The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.

Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not