Art Quotes

The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.

The first virtue of a painting is to be a feast for the eyes.

The so-called conscientiousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring.

Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity.

The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.

In a country like Pakistan where is politics is often an art form of the elite, and it's often very dynastic, it's hard to explain to people why I don't think it's a birthright.

Art consists in making others feel what we feel.

I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art.

I am afraid that as evangelicals, we think that a work of art only has value if we reduce it to a tract.

Numberless arts appear foolish whose secret motives are most wise and weighty.

There is an art in silence, and there is an eloquence in it too.

Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.

Tosses her head and flips her hair, she got a whole bunch of nothing in there.

The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life-the terror of art.

I don't have to rap in a stadium. As long as I can provide for my family and my art, and live comfortably and live well, then I'm good. And with my talent level and my skill level, I'll get there.

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end.

Learning when 'enough is enough' is the discipline of a lifetime.

The neutrality and clarity of an engineering drawing is a better model for teaching about art than all the uncontrollable drivel about the cabbala and metaphysics and the ecstasy of sainthood.

If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.

Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one.

The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.

Artists will sometimes speak of Rome with disparagement or indifference while it is before them; but no artist ewer lived in Rome and then left it, without sighing to return.

One has to guard against a formula that is good for everything, that can interpret reality in addition to the other arts, and that rather than creating can only result in a style, or a stylization.

The future of our nation depends on providing our children with a complete education that includes music.

I choose depending on the way I feel; randomly, in other words. When I haven't done anything for a long time, I always start small, on paper.

The year is always correct, also the month, only the day can be another. But that occurs to me only in the moment of writing it down.

The Atlas belongs to the Lenbachhaus in Munich - it's long since ceased to belong to me. Occasionally I run across it somewhere, and I think it's interesting because it looks different each time.

Art shows us how to see things that are constructive and good, and to be an active part of that.

Family photos, pictures of groups, those are truely wonderful. And they are just as good as the old masters, just as rich and just as beautifully composed (what does that mean anyway).

To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality.

It is fatal for art if it is forced into official respectability and condemned to sterile mediocrity.

The product of movement and counter-movement is tension. When tension working strength is expressed, it endows the work of art with the living effect of coordinated, though opposing, forces.

Art has arrived at the paradox that tradition itself requires the occurrence of radical attacks on tradition.

Journalism is just the art of capturing behavior.

Whatever your life's pursuit -- art, poetry, sculpture, music, whatever your occupation may be -- you can be as spiritual as clergy, always living a life of praise.

The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play.

In my vocabulary there are two bad words: art and good taste.

Would not it be best to leave room to mystery?

Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.

I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who have understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks,-who had a genius, so to speak, for sauntering.

Art, like love, excludes all competition and absorbs the man.

Art among a religious race produces reliques [sic]; among a military one, trophies; among a commercial one, articles of trade.

Ancient art was the tyrant of Egypt, the mistress of Greece and the servant of Rome.

Logic is the art of thinking well: the mind, like the body, requires to be trained before it can use its powers in the most advantageous way.

The waking mind, you see, is the least serviceable in the arts.

From dust thou art to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.

In the world of Art there are no wrong choices.

The art of love-giving and taking become one.