Art Quotes

But I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.

I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

One of the aims of Budo is the suppression of fears.

About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.

Beautiful and rare Aurora, In the heavens thou art their Flora

Believing in one’s own art becomes harder and harder when the public response grows fonder.

I don't get into 'becauses.' When you come into a studio you see a number of works. My habit is to go to the one I like most. If you start to say, 'because,' you get into art jargon.

Playing live is a lost art, and you don't see a lot of bands that go out and play the way the older bands do. It's a celebration, and a lot of people treat it like a commercial or a distraction.

Paradoxically, the most constructive thing women can do is to write, for in the act of writing we deny our muteness and begin to eliminate some of the difficulties that have been put upon us.

We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers.

As an artist, you don't stop making art because people are not buying it.

Buy art, build a museum, put your name on it, let people in for free. That's as close as you can get to immortality.

The first forms of writing emerged not for art, literature, or love, not for spiritual or liturgical purposes, but for business--all literature could be said to originate from sales receipts (sorry).

I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation.

Art may make a suite of clothes, but nature must produce a man.

Rose of the desert! thou art to me An emblem of stainless purity,-- Of those who, keeping their garments white, Walk on through life with steps aright.

To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art.

Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.

Poetry is the art of overhearing ourselves say things from which it is impossible to retreat.

If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.

Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.

I've always been doing some sort of art. I started off, when I was very young, painting.

[The photographs] were there simply to indicate a radical art that had already vanished. The photograph was necessary only as a residue for communication.

The oldest of the arts and the youngest of the professions.

You create a work of art. You do not know whether it will get public sanction. Sometimes outstanding films do no business, and sometimes films which are not so good work.

That's not precisely what I had in mind." Jamie, I had found out by accident a few days previously, had never mastered the art of winking one eye. Instead, he blinked solemnly, like a large red owl.

An eyewitness account is evidence that an artist has proposed a work of art. But documentary evidence (i.e. a photograph) is more conclusive.

I discovered martial arts, first judo and then karate, and I became quite good at it, because I had something to prove. And more than anything, I needed to feel safe.

When I was a teenager, my dad used to put a lot of pressure on me to be successful, and I'd really beat myself up about things like losing martial arts competitions.

The poem, in a sense, is no more or less than a little machine for remembering itself ... Poetry is therefore primarily a commemorative act.

So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something completely different. They were completely Art-less.

I make clothes people can wear; I don't make art.

I felt so insufficiently equipped, so unprepared, so weak, and at the same time it seemed to me that my reflections on art were correct. I quarreled with all the world and with myself.

the moods of sadness that come over anyone who takes up art... these dismal moods have very little compensation.

Music is the most abstract of the arts and also the most physical....music is under two signs, the stars and the wine

Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum.

The politician is trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.

Is love like art - something always ahead, never quite attained.

I suffer for my art and despise the witless moneyed scoundrels who praise it.

To save the Theatre, the Theatre must be destroyed, and actors and actresses all die of the Plague ... they make art impossible.

The record of one's life must needs prove more interesting to him who writes it than to him who reads what has been written.

Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it.

Chess is neither a science nor an art. It is what human nature most delights in--a fight.

The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperament of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.

I've always loved the fashion of the '30s and everything that came with the Art Deco era - the jewelry and the glamour.

This really blew my mind, the fact that me, an over fed, long haired, leaping gnome, should be the star of a Hollywood movie.

Chaos is everywhere - and artists, to fashion art and live truthfully, have no choice but to invite this unwanted guest right into the studio.

I shall become a master in this art only after a great deal of practice.

Meeting and talking to the artist adds a special element to collecting contemporary art that makes the work an irreplaceable treasure rather than just another possession.

Art does not copy nature - it suggests it.