Art Quotes
I think from an artist's point of view, everything in art, in fact everything in the world is available as material.
Art, not unlike raising children... may entail much sacrifice and periods of despair, but, with luck, the effort will produce something that outlives you.
An educational foundation is only part of the equation. In order for creativity to flourish and imagination to take hold, we also need to expose our children to the arts from a very young age.
God, the supreme artist, uses our life for the creation of art. We are the instruments through which the force of life expresses itself.
Thou art never at any time nearer to God than when under tribulation; which He permits for the purification and beautifying of thy soul.
I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.
People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.
If you choose the sort of life which has no conventional pattern you have to try to make an art of it, or it is a mess.
My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'
It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles.
The greatest remedy that is used against a plan of the enemy is to do voluntarily what he plans that you do by force.
Nothing is of greater importance in time of war than in knowing how to make the best use of a fair opportunity when it is offered.
In the early 2000s, I was introduced to the noble art of kickboxing, it thrilled me, and I loved it. I loved the honour and the discipline, and I also loved the punching.
O my God, if Thy creations are so full of beauty, delight and joy, how infinitely more full of beauty, delight and joy art Thou Thyself, Creator of all!
It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to create.
People think a big camera and big lighting will make art, and I want to break that rule. If you have a great concept, it can be art.
My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him all good things-trout as well as eternal salvation-come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy.
Seeing is an experience. People, not their eyes, see. There is more to seeing than meets the eyeball.
In art intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish, love must be proved by deeds and not by reasons. What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing.
The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous.
There is no such thing as exaggerated art. I even believe that there is salvation only in extreme.
My parents never prevented me from doing anything, but they didn't have the knowledge of the arts that Mrs. Ranger had.
In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
If man ever comes to perfect equilibrium with the environment, we'll all be redundant, perhaps because you won't need art or letters.
Gardens are enclosed areas in which plants and arts meet. They form 'cultures' in an uncompromised sense of the word.
Nature supplies the game of chess with its implements; science with its system; art with its aesthetic arrangement of its problems; and God endows it with its blessed power of making people happy.
The art of reading is to skip judiciously. Whole libraries may be skipped in these days, when we have the results of them in our modern culture without going over the ground again.
Flee laziness which while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is a seed shut up in the pod, and art without practice is nothing.
It is better to excel in any single art than to arrive only at mediocrity in several, so moderate skill in several is to be preferred where one cannot attain to perfection in any.
A Locanian having plucked all the feathers off from a nightingale and seeing what a little body it had, "surely," quoth he, "thou art all voice and nothing else.
As technology advances at an alarming pace, the place of drawing remains as valid as ever in the creation of art and architecture.
I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
I wanted to jeopardize my own image. With my image I had already produced art pieces such as videos of photographs.
