Art Quotes

You're building a tool, not a piece of art. Don't be blinded by the vision.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art

I never read, I just look at pictures.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love.

For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of photography but I don't agree.

I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!

An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.

If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last.

The idea of a detached art, of poetry as a charm which exists only to distract our leisure, is a decadent idea and an unmistakable symptom of our power to castrate.

I have to say that I reject somewhat the distinction between something called art and something called public art. I think all art demands and desires to be seen.

Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.

Every science touches art at some points—every art has its scientific side; the worst man of science is he who is never an artist, and the worst artist is he who is never a man of science.

My friend James Cameron and I made three films together - True Lies, The Terminator and Terminator 2. Of course, that was during his early, low-budget, art-house period.

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.

It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognise out of a number of facts which are incidental and which are vital.

The mother of useful arts is necessity; that of the fine arts is luxury. For father the former has intellect; the latter genius, which itself is a kind of luxury.

I would sooner look for figs on thistles than for the higher attributes of art from one whose ruling motive... is money.

You know what you are actually in love with? Integrity. The impossible. The clean, consistent, reasonable, self-faithful, the all-of-one-style, like a work of art.

Keep to yourself the final touches of your art.

I worked with someone else's photos; I cropped them in whatever way I wanted and put words on top of them. I knew how to do it with my eyes closed. Why couldn't that be my art?

I thought martial arts was going to help me with my movies and TV stuff, but I realized it would not.

I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.

You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced human seldom produces art. It's that imbalance which impels us... The artist lives with anxiety.

Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice.

There are only two reasons that anybody does something for 50 years. You've got to believe in what you are doing and love the art form. I love harmony-tight, close harmony.

In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically.

We [Corbis] make it so easy to call up images, whether art or people or beaches or sunsets or Nobel Prize winners.

Art has to keep moving and discovering to stay alive.

More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.

You'll find out when you reach the top, you're on the bottom.

I've been sitting down studying the Art of Love. I think it will fit me like a glove.

I always thought writing was the foundation and the basis for journalism in the same way being able to draw is the foundation for art.

Just another point of view, I'm just a reflection of you.

Hitler showed the evil that could be done by the art of rhetoric. Churchill showed how it could help to save humanity.

We are able to feel and learn very quickly through music, through art, through poetry some spiritual things that we would otherwise learn very slowly.

It doesn't matter the genre or type of art, if it's authentic there's an apparent beauty to it and as an artist, that's very inspiring.

If any vestige of the American automobile industry is to survive, it must involve state-of-the-art vehicles that are not equal to but surpass the best imports in every way.

The most colorful section of a bookstore is the display of SF books, with art by people like Wayne Barlow, who is a terrific artist.

With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films, I became a filmmaker who dabbled in the arts.

The more complicated and restricted the method, the less opportunity for expression of one's original sense of freedom.

The art of music, rather more daughter than imitator of nature, in her impressive and mysterious language minding and educating us, rouses directly our temper and rules us to the depths of our souls.

Now my tapestry's unraveling.

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.

An artist is only an artist on condition that he neglects no aspect of his dual nature. This dualism is the power of being oneself and someone else at one and the same time.

It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.